Ron Collison (and anyone else): XENIX

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Jan 15 19:29:01 2003

Jarkko Teppo wrote:

> I've got Xenix 286 disks + manuals somewhere. I bought it second-hand
> in ~1992 and got many hours of fun from it. Okay, months of fun.
>
> The only thing lacking (back then) was the compiler which was a
> separate product, at least I didn't have it. Looking back,
> Minix 1.7 was a definite improvement if you were stuck with
> 286 machines like I was.

While 86 sucked for programs more than 64k code and data,
remember for the longest time UNIX was developed on
such small systems.

> I'm writing this in Mozilla; the compilation took ~5 hours on an
> Alphastation 500/500 (21164 with 8MB cache) with 512MB memory.
> I still get nostalgic moments when I think about minix and xenix and
> the time when I knew what every single program in /usr/bin actually was :-)

Or try and find where stuff like doc's are put now days. Open source
is good but the Doc's need to be improved. Ben.
Received on Wed Jan 15 2003 - 19:29:01 GMT