Microsoft OSes

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 17:02:00 1998

There was Xenix/86 for XTs and IBM even sold Xenix under license for the
XTs as well...

-Mike

Kip Crosby wrote:
>
> At 13:01 2/4/98 PST, you wrote:
> >First of all, did MS Xenix run on PC hardware?
>
> Sure. XENIX was intended as a UN*X-style NOS that would allow a 286 AT to
> serve a flock of XT clients. It could use protected mode, IIRC.
>
> >Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0? How did they compare
> >to a cheap version of UNIX?
>
> NT prior to 3.x was called MS LAN Manager, and didn't compare particularly
> well to anything.
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Received on Wed Feb 04 1998 - 17:02:00 GMT

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