67Dart273
Well-Known Member
I know some of you guys fret and fidget about some of us that run Linux, but if it weren't for certain twists and turns in the Zen vaporfield of blue tensional force, 'er somethin, we could ALL be usin' an X based OS. By that I mean of course "little bill."
Read. It's complicated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
This quote is quite telling, I think. By the way, I guess you know, MS did not originate "MS-DOS."
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"Microsoft omitted multiuser support from its own MS-DOS operating system because Xenix had it.[29] The company planned to over time improve MS-DOS so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which would also run on the 68000, Z8000, and LSI-11; they would be upwardly compatible with Xenix, which BYTE in 1983 described as "the multi-user MS-DOS of the future".[30][31] Microsoft advertised DOS and Xenix together, listing the shared features of its "single-user OS" and "the multi-user, multi-tasking, UNIX-derived operating system", and promising easy porting between them."
Read. It's complicated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
This quote is quite telling, I think. By the way, I guess you know, MS did not originate "MS-DOS."
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"Microsoft omitted multiuser support from its own MS-DOS operating system because Xenix had it.[29] The company planned to over time improve MS-DOS so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which would also run on the 68000, Z8000, and LSI-11; they would be upwardly compatible with Xenix, which BYTE in 1983 described as "the multi-user MS-DOS of the future".[30][31] Microsoft advertised DOS and Xenix together, listing the shared features of its "single-user OS" and "the multi-user, multi-tasking, UNIX-derived operating system", and promising easy porting between them."
