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   On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC)   
    wrote:   
      
   > Indeed. It's interesting to note that about ten years have   
   ...   
   > That's about how long it took from the advent of the i386 to   
   > the general availability of *nix clones.   
      
   	 More like five years, the 80386 came out in 1987. There were BSD   
   ports available by 1993 and the first Linux release was in 1991. However   
   that's just open source - There were commercial XENIX and Interactive ports   
   earlier - even for the 80286.   
      
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