<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/11/03 9:43:25 AM Mountain Daylight Time, rraab@plusten.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">To be precise, Xenix was the first and it was developed by MS (later sold to <BR>
SCO); it first ran on the 80286 (IIRC, it did not run on 8088), but even the <BR>
286 was a broken chip.<BR>
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I beg to differ. Xenix was originally written by MS for Tandy (yes Radio Shack) for their Motorola based product, the 6000. The problem the 6800 chips had at the time was theit inability to communicate with hardware so a Z80 was used for the overhead. SCO was running on IBM PC/XT and clones in 1983. I know because I was selling and supporting both at the time.<BR>
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