Subject: Re: UNIX & Motorola MMUs
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Christian Kuhtz <kuhtz@ix.netcom.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 10/25/1996 10:03:40
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> There were other OS's around at that time, too: UNOS (CRDS's best guess =
as
> to what UNIX was, without AT&T license or source code; kinda like Linux),
> Pick, "S-1" (what a marketing fantasy that vaporware was!), Xenix (it was
> V7 once, but Microslop put its own special smell on everything and didn't
> track the rest of the world at all, fixed no bugs, and ultimately gave =
that
> stinking pile to SCO; kinda like how IBM created AIX...), oh, and
> Convergent Technologies! I was trying to remember their name last night.
> They had some wierd OS of their own. What ever happened to them?

With all due respect, but that is not anywhere near how AIX was created.  =
Read the facts.

Regards,
Chris

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<smaller>> There were other OS's around at that time, too: UNOS (CRDS's =
best guess as

> to what UNIX was, without AT&T license or source code; kinda like Linux),

> Pick, "S-1" (what a marketing fantasy that vaporware was!), Xenix (it was

> V7 once, but Microslop put its own special smell on everything and didn't

> track the rest of the world at all, fixed no bugs, and ultimately gave =
that

> stinking pile to SCO; kinda like how IBM created AIX...), oh, and

> Convergent Technologies! I was trying to remember their name last night.

> They had some wierd OS of their own. What ever happened to them?


</smaller>With all due respect, but that is not anywhere near how AIX was =
created.  Read the facts.


Regards,

Chris


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