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   On 17/06/2024 02:37, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:   
   > On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC)   
   >  wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
   >   
   Very hard to put a decent Unix on a 286 - Venix was the only one, I   
   recally.  No memory management.   
      
   the 386 made porting unix pretty simple. SCO unix was extremely stable.   
   Wasn;'t that a Xenix evolution?   
      
      
   Interactive was a bit shitty, but it ran.   
      
      
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