Xenix ?

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Sun Nov 11 22:06:22 2001

At 05:06 PM 11/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > Remember, Xenix was originally a Microsoft product, they then sold it
> off
> > > to SCO (for a % ownership in SCO)
> > >
> >
> > Actually Xenix was never a Microsoft branded product. It was Microsoft's
> > but they only sold Xenix as OEM'd versions to vendors like SCO and lots
> > of HW vendors who then added they modifications to support their specific
> > products (like Apricot, whose machines were far from plain PCs).
>
>We may not all mean the same thing by "branded", but ISTR
>seeing the banner "Microsoft XENIX" on that Radio Shack 68000
>machine whose model number I can never recall...

Tandy Models 16 and 6000, it was a dual proc box, with both a Z-80 and a
68K processor. on seperate system boards. the 68K cboards were in a
cardcage in the back, and IIRC the Z-80 wqas in the bottom of the
machine. You could boot CP/M, Trs-Dos, CP/M-68K or Xenix on the
beasties... (I used to own 2 of them) a local ISP (Eskimo north) got
started originally on model 1's, then 3's (in the guise of a BBS) then he
moved it up to a Model 16 running Xenix (still a bbs) then when the whole
"internet" thing started to take off, he used the 16's he had as shell
boxes with a couple of suns to do the talking to the internet......

  He used to do a mod on the 16/6000 ramboards that involved running a
couple of wires and changing out the PALS on them to allow 1 Meg per board
instead fo the 256K they shipped with (256Kx1 chips instead of 64Kx1 chips)
Received on Sun Nov 11 2001 - 22:06:22 GMT

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