8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
12:44 a.m.
On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 10:12:23 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, reed(a)reedmedia.net wrote:
[...]
I did so too in the early 1990s, using (IIRC) "XENIX System V", an
attempt to retrofit some System V features to XENIX. It was very
limited: it ran in Intel 80386 real mode, so it was limited to 16 MB
of memory. The toolchain was excruciating. I think it was based on
Microsoft products, and I soon replaced them with GNU software, which
had its problems on the platform. The good news: it worked.
What happened with XENIX? I know it had some
success (I used at least
one retired system with it), but nothing near the other offerings on the
PC family.
I was forced to use Xenix for a contracting job (and hated it, as it
was almost-but-not-quite-Unix, and the differences annoyed me). Wouldn't Linux have arrived at around that time?
You don't say your time. Referring to Jeremy's original message (time
frame mid-1980s), no, Linus would have been about 14 at the time. He
made the first announcement of what would become Linux on 25 August
1991 (âjust a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"). So
yes, it was available when I was doing my XENIX work. So was BSD/386,
which is what I was using at the time.
Greg
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