Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success

[Andrew Weiss]

On May 4, 2004, at 6:53 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at ucsc.edu>
>> Date: 2004/05/04 Tue AM 02:56:10 GMT
>> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: Alpha CPUs, was Re: [rescue] i860 Success
>
>> And a quick question, was Xenix M$'s first OS? If that is the case, 
>> it is
>> rather messed up that M$ started as an *nix shop of sorts. Ugh..
>
> Rather hard to believe - since MS had no OS exp. and bought the first 
> DOS from a third-party when approached about the IBM-PC initially. 
> Xenix may have been the first MS created OS, DOS having been bought...
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Sort of created.  They licensed it from AT&T and then resold to SCO.

http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=xenix.history&F=1111111111&G=Y

Andrew