8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
4:22 a.m.
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Warren Toomey wrote:
All, I've uploaded 13 Unix/World magazines from
1984-85 to archive.org.
Thanks!
November 1985 issue has an article by Bill Gates.
Gates wrote that they were optimistic to achieve 400,000 XENIX
installations -- their critical mass -- within 18 months.
"... IBM has announced XENIX as the multi-user operating sysytem for the
IBM PC-AT."
"Significantly, at the time the XENIX project was started [mid 1980],
the IBM Personal Computer had not been announced."
What happened with XENIX? I know it had some success (I used at least
one retired system with it), but nothing near the other offerings on the
PC family.