[CLUE-Talk] SCO sucks

[Tom Poindexter]

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 02:22:33PM -0400, Srbraukhof at aol.com wrote:

> The only advantage SCO had back then was the fact it was the first version of 
> Unix that would run on an Intel platform... 8088.  Bottom line... they never 
> grew up.

Amazingly enough, SCO had competitors even then.  I ran Venix/86, a fairly 
clean Unix Version 7 port, the same time or slightly earlier.  IBM PC/XT, 
4.77mhz 8088, 10mb disk, 640kb memory.  Sonme would say that Version 7 was
the last 'true' version of Unix.  The kernel text size was 45kb, no TCP 
of course.

AT&T internally had a 8086 version of Unix that ran on an 'AP' (Auxillary 
Processor).  One AT&T clients that I did some consulting had one of the 
boxes, it ran the badge security system on door locks.  

-- 
Tom Poindexter
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