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Article #66661Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!
From: jskaggs... OS2 User
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00
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Martin Gregorie (gregorie@see.sig.for.address) wrote: [snipped some nice history] > As an example of good contemporary micro operating systems in 1981 > both Uniflex and OS-9 were running on 6809 boxes and were commercially > available. Both were modular UNIX clones with shells, Unix-style > filing systems, and multi-user, multi-tasking capabilities. The 6809 > was only an 8-bit machine but would easily support 3-4 users under > these systems. Uniflex is dead; OS9 is still very much alive. I use a UniFlex system regularly. It's a 680?0 (I'm not sure if it's 020 or 040) running on a VME system with a hardware X server and various DADIO components to run the robot I weld with. The system was built by Hobart Bros. Lasers and Advanced Systems in '94 or '95. Guess some things never die. -joe > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Martin Gregorie |Logica UK Ltd > Greg...@logica.com |All opinions expressed are solely those > +44 (0171) 637 9111 |of the author and not of Logica > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ========================================================================== Joe Skaggs | Colorado School of Mines Replace the From: field with | Center for Welding, Joining, jsk...@mines.edu to send email | and Coatings Research
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From: jskaggs...@MetLa.mines.edu (OS2 User) Subject: Re: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft! Date: 1997/02/06 Message-ID: <5ddnjp$ivi@magma.Mines.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 214956237 references: <32DB2690.3533@geocities.com> <32e69d27.22762842@news.garden.net> <5ctf77$pdg@clarion.carno.net.au> <32f5b72c.1563549@news> <petrichE51F63.9FM@netcom.com> <32f62d2e.31570835@news> followup-to: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops,alt.2600 organization: Colorado School of Mines newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops,alt.2600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit