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From: Peter Flass
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:22

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Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:
> 
>> Okay, I was going to ask what CP/M had that DOS didn't (except
>> nostalgia),
>> since the latter was derived from the former. Once you include MP/M I
>> can see a difference. On the other hand it's a shame the unix wasn't
>> able to get into this space earlier - resource and legal requirements?
> 
> Resource requirements, mainly. UNIX on an 8086 wasn't really feasible 
> (although Minix did it in the end).

I was thinking about this last night. I ran Minix on an XT and it was
painfully slow, and I had the feeling it could die at any point (a pipe
could fill up, for example) It was somewhat useful as a tool to learn unix,
but not for much else.

> 
>> It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used,  personal
>> operating system.
> 
> Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit 
> earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.

That was my other thought: why Linux and not BSD?

> 
> And none of these are truly UNIX, in the legal sense of the name. BSD is 
> a bit nearer in the code sense.
> 

That legal stuff was a big part of the problem. There were a ton of -nix,
more-or-less like unix, but none could be unix.

-- 
Pete

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