[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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