[TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines))
reed at reedmedia.net
reed at reedmedia.net
Wed Jan 8 12:58:04 AEST 2020
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 at 16:22:41 -0600, reed at reedmedia.net wrote:
> > November 1985 issue has an article by Bill Gates.
> > "Significantly, at the time the XENIX project was started [mid 1980],
> > the IBM Personal Computer had not been announced."
>
> You don't say where this quote comes from. The use of pluperfect
> suggests that it's not from the Unix/World article. The PC was
> announced in August 1981, and the PC-AT was released in August 1984,
> so the date of the article fits well.
It was from the magazine. I added the brackets for the date which came
from an earlier sentence in the article.
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