Joe wrote:
>
> At 07:16 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
> >>First off your dates are grossly in error. MS in the persona of Gates
> >>was involved in putting basic on the altair via MITS. When CP/M was
> >>gaining ground as the dominent 8080/z80 OS microsoft was the dominent
> >>language supplier. The majik system was a z80 running cp/m and MSbasic
> >>compiler, MAC and L80, and maybe Multiplan.
> >
> >
> >Yep. I know that. But MS dominance didn't exactly happen overnight. They
> >didn't have much of a hold in anything until the IBM PC took off...
> >
> >>Apple: Apple softcard combind package of CP/M and MS languges and a z80.
> >>TRS80: Disk basic.
> >>PDP-11: Didn't MS do a unix varient?
> >>UNix... they did have a hand in a PC unix and apps for it.
>
> Yes, XENIX. They also made it (XENIX) for the Tandy 6000 and for some
> Zenith computers (248?).
No, Tandy made Xenix for the Tandy 6000, SCO made Xenix for the Zenith
and other Intel computers.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Mon Jun 15 1998 - 20:36:37 BST