[TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Dec 7 16:07:58 AEST 2017


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Call me a cynical old bastard (which I am), but I can't see M$ raising a
>> flag for Unix...  Wasn't it Billy Gates who reportedly said that any PC
>> running Linux is one not running Windoze, and did his best to discredit it?
>>
>
> Microsoft today is not the company of old.  In recent years Microsoft has
> participated in standards bodies and worked on interoperability with other
> browser vendors.  They even joined the Linux Foundation last year.
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/


Yea, I wonder if there's anyway to get the early Xenix code bases? They are
the same age as the MS-DOS versions they released to the kinda-sorta-almost
public domain...

Warner
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