[TUHS] Re: Interesting post about Microsoft and UNIX

This is all very enlightening, thank you. Comments inline... On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 at 05:39, Jonathan Gray <jsg(a)jsg.id.au> wrote: I found https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1987/0902.html which includes the following quote: "UNIX System V and the 80386 are a perfect technological match," said Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, in remarks at AT&T's press conference here. AT&T and Microsoft are developing a new version of UNIX System V for the 80386 chip that will run XENIX System V as well as UNIX System V applications. This is September 1987, so perhaps Microsoft's abandonment of Xenix was not as early as I had thought. Though this does imply that the Xenix port was not ready at that point, and perhaps was ultimately abandoned by Microsoft. I'm not familiar with 386/ix so I'll have to let others comment here, though I do note that we're now slipping into 1988. AT&T sold rebadged Olivetti machines with SVR3 in 1987: This is fascinating, as it claims "concurrent running of both MS-DOS and true 32-bit UNIX System V programs." They were also serious about market positioning - the larger model could handle up to 64MB of RAM and two 135MB disks. I'd appreciate any further details on the exact operating system. Also interesting; I wonder if the "capability to run multiple MS-DOS applications under Unix" was shipped in a functional form, and what relation it might or might not have had to what was running on the AT&T hardware. -Henry