[TUHS] PC Unix (had been How to Kill a Technical Conference

[Ed Bradford]

What year was this, Charles?

Ed


On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:33 PM Charles H Sauer <sauer at technologists.com>
wrote:

> For much of my last few years at IBM, my uucp machine, ibmchs, was an AT
> running Xenix, probably that version of Xenix.
>
> On 4/6/2021 12:09 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
> > Doug -- IIRC IBM private-labeled a Microsoft put out a version of Xenix,
> > although I think it required an PC/AT (286)
> > ᐧ
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:36 AM M Douglas McIlroy
> > <m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
> > <mailto:m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >      > I wonder. IBM introduced the IBM PC in August of 1981.
> >      > That was years after a non-memory managed version of
> >      > Unix was created by Heinze Lycklama,  LSX. Is anyone
> >      > on this list familiar with Bell Labs management thoughts
> >      > on  selling IBM on LSX rather than "dos"?
> >
> >     IBM famously failed to buy the well-established CP/M in
> >     1980. (CP/M had been introduced in 1974, before the
> >     advent of the LSI-11 on which LSX ran.) By then IBM had
> >     settled on Basic and Intel.  I do not believe they ever
> >     considered Unix and DEC, nor that AT&T considered
> >     selling to IBM. (AT&T had--fortunately--long since been
> >     rebuffed in an attempt to sell to DEC.)
> >
> >     Doug
> >
>
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