 Messages in this thread SubjectRe: Microsoft and Xenix. On
Friday 22 June 2001 18:41, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not
subscribed to the list, but I scan the archives and saw the >
following. Please cc e-mail me in followups.  I've had several
requests to start a mailing list on this, actually... Might do
so in a bit...  > I was working (and still am) for a UK computer
systems integrator called > Logica. One of our departments sold
and supported Xenix (as distributor > for Microsoft? - all the
manuals had Logica on the covers although there > was at least
some mention of Microsoft inside) in the UK. At the time it  I
don't suppose you have any of those manuals still lying around?
> It was more like (can't remember exactly when) 1985/1986 that
Xenix got > ported to the IBM PC.  Sure. Before that the PC
didn't have enough Ram. Dos 2.0 was preparing the dos user base
for the day when the PC -would- have enough ram.  Stuff Paul
Allen set in motion while he was in charge of the technical side
of MS still had some