[TUHS] Interesting post about Microsoft and UNIX

[Henry Bent]

On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 at 12:13, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:

> On 12/6/24 8:38 AM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> > /his was before IBM came on board/
>
> and IBM had no interest in the 386 at the time
>

Are you referring strictly to the 386 as a UNIX machine?  The 386 shipped
in 1986 and the IBM PS/2 Model 80 (with a 386) shipped in '87.  My
assumption is that the driving factor in keeping the lower end PS/2
machines around was cost - at launch, a PS/2 with an 8086 was $2300 while
one with a 386 was over $10k.  Of course, the 386 PS/2 was initially
targeted at OS/2 and not UNIX; from what I can find AIX PS/2 didn't ship
until at least late 1988.

-Henry
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