[TUHS] Re: Interesting post about Microsoft and UNIX

At Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:55:36 -0700, Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote: Subject: [TUHS] Re: Interesting post about Microsoft and UNIX I was working on contracts at Canadian Pacific Railway at about that time. I'm pretty sure CP would have been a big customer for 386 machines. They were an early adopter of PCs in general for a larger corporation (CP was one of the first "paperless" companies in Canada, with PCs on every desktop and being pushed out to big customers to interface via 3270 emulation cards and custom software with their mainframe systems for ordering train cars, etc. Meanwhile many similar- sized companies with mainframes were still all just using plain old 3270 terminals (i.e. without custom interface software).) At the time of the debut of the 386 we were building a new track control system for the Broadview subdivision and it was being built with Intel 286 systems running Xenix. I think they may have been Compaq hardware, though earlier MS-DOS projects I worked on at CP were using Olivetti PCs, though CP also certainly had PCs from Compaq and IBM as well. I was doing device drivers (including one for a Matrox graphics card), various support libraries such as an IPC framework, and general toolchain and OS support for the project. I remember putting up a poster from Intel of the i386 chip in my cubicle to remind colleagues of the exciting 32-bit things soon to come. I don't remember having any worries that there would be any problem with getting a 386 version of Xenix or some other Unix. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>