[Novalug] What makes you think you are in the 21st Century?
Garrett Nievin
gnievin@comcast.net
Sat Mar 3 11:05:18 EST 2007
In the mid-80s I played with something called "PC-Unix" (which was later
renamed to PCNX or something to avoid trademark issues) on my XT from a
company called Wendin, who also had a "PC-VMS". I still have the books
(3-ring binder, natch) and install floppies around here somewhere I
imagine.
It was a slloooowww multitasking shell over DOS, not useful in any
meaningful sense. I seem to recall using it to dial in to a BBS and play
Tradewars, and generating maps from my session transcripts using awk...
Cheers,
Garrett
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Doug Toppin wrote:
> Oddly enough, what most made me feel like I was in the 21st century
> was actually in 1988. If I remember correctly, that was when I first
> installed IBM Xenix (and later SCO Xenix) on my 286 at home. I
> clearly remember bringing it up (run level 3 only) at home for the
> first time and thinking "wow, I'm running Unix at home". I was amazed
> that I could use the shell (Bourne), vi and C dev/debug at home
> exactly like I was doing at work on a Sun.
>
> Doug
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