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- From: Larry Baker <leb@sdt.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:46:44 -0800
- Organization: SABRE Decision Technologies
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- Mark A. Scarton wrote:
- > Actually, in 1981 I had a single user multitasking multiprocessing Unix for a
- > Z80 running on a homemade Better Board II with 64K RAM and 3 8" floppies. It
- > was pretty much a straight lift of version 7.
-
- Around '85, when AT&T started marketing a line of 8088/8086-based PCs through
- retail outlets like ComputerLand, they had a shipping, commercial version of
- UNIX for the 8088. I saw it running in a store in Austin, TX. I don't
- remember what they wanted for it (it was a lot).
-
- I always thought that AT&T had dropped the ball when it came to commercializing
- the technology they created. UNIX was, and to my mind is, to this day, one
- of the most elegant, simple, powerful operating systems I have ever seen.
-
- If they'd simply sold the 8088-based port for, say, $50 or something, then
- MS-DOS would never have prospered as it has... and, possibly, the 80386 would
- have been able to realize its hardware limits much sooner in the game, rather
- than in 1995.
-
- Larry
- leb@sdt.com
-