Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 5 Sep 2007 at 10:15, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> I don't suppose anybody knows where one would dig up old unixes for 8086
> or 80286 based PCs?  Source would be a big bonus.  I've been playing
> with the bcc compiler and the V7 source and just curious what "real"
> ports looked like.

If my memory serves, the first ports of Unix for the 80286 weren't 
for the PC/AT (i.e. earlier) and were for Xenix, not Unix (yes, I 
know, a minor quibble).  It was an odd arrangement--Microsoft was 
working on the utilities, etc. and Intel was working on the kernel 
code.  The whole affair seemed to take forever.

Cheers,
Chuck