Subj : Re: Pi4 to Pi5 migration
To   : Ahem A Rivet's Shot
From : The Natural Philosopher
Date : Mon Jun 17 2024 17:02:37

On 17/06/2024 02:37, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:41 -0000 (UTC)
> <bp@www.zefox.net> 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.
>
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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