Ok, if Xenix runs on PCs, does anyone have a copy they could send me?
(Piracy won't work, I want the manuals as well)
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First of all, did MS Xenix run on PC hardware?
Yes, 286 and above as I recall. Introduced August 1984.
Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0?
In a sense, this was OS/2. OS/2 1.x was a cooperative venture between
Microsoft and IBM, with the majority of the OS/2 core designed by MS
architect Gordon Letwin (ref: the 80s book _Inside OS/2_ by Letwin, MS
Press). The first version of Windows NT, 3.1, arose from a difference of
opinion between Microsoft and IBM over the future of advanced operating
systems; a difference of opinion created by the huge unanticipated success
of Windows 3.0. After the Win3.0 release, IBM and Microsoft development
paths diverged, with IBM focusing on OS/2 2.x, and Microsoft on Windows 3.x.
Both continued work on their 3.0 releases of advanced operating systems,
which became OS/2 Warp and Windows NT respectively.
Kai
My opinions not Microsoft's, etc.
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> From: Max Eskin [SMTP:maxeskin@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 1:02 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Microsoft OSes
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> First of all, did MS Xenix run on PC hardware?
> Secondly, was there ever a Windows NT 1.0 and 2.0? How did they compare
> to a cheap version of UNIX?
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<The manual/documentation I have gives a procedure you can follow (manuall
<flipping the switches all the way) which is a self-test. Following the
<procedure you can check if your 8800b is working correctly. Using this
<procedure I tracked down several problems (loose wires to fron panel) bu
<still have the address light problem.
<
<I'll track down the procedure and explain further, if there is any intere
Having done that (owner of a 8800 early, early one) I know it well.
Allison
I keep an 8" floppy disk in the front of my store to amaze people ("Just
fold it twice and stick it in your drive...it holds a lot!")
Just how much do (did?) they hold? (I'm sure there were different data
densities...just a range is all I want!)
manney
Sun Hemmi, of course.
>With all of this dialogue about slide rules, I am appalled to note that
>Pickett & Eckell is the only brand name mentioned. Am I the only person
>to have been brought up with a Keuffel & Esser ivory covered mahogany
>rule? Also, what was the name of the manufacturer who made a bamboo core
>rule?
> - don
<At 19:20 2/3/98 -0500, PG wrote:
<>"Slipsticker"?!? I thought I was the last one! C'mon -- who else here ha
<>his old slide rule _and_ still remembers how to use it?
I have my 10" white aluminum pickett handy and grab it when a quick
"good to three places" answer will do. I also use a E6B which is a
circular aircraft slide rule for time, speed, distance, fuel use and
wind correction. That one is in the plane as I'm absolutely certain
it works as the calculator version of the E6B allways seems to need a
new battery.
Allison
Hi. There's this guy, in Bahrain, who's got a PS/1 386 2MB RAM, that's been
"sitting in his closet." Now, he wants to know what it would be worth. I
want to know what it'd be worth, too. (There's going to be arguements....
I'm sure.) Anyway, condition is currently unknown, but assumed in working
condition.
Dollars, please. C'mon, I'm not THAT far away. (PS-The guy's here now...
might be handy.)
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From: John Higginbotham <higginbo(a)netpath.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: PS/1 How Much?
>At 09:21 PM 2/4/98 +0300, you wrote:
>>Hi. There's this guy, in Bahrain, who's got a PS/1 386 2MB RAM, that's
been
>>"sitting in his closet." Now, he wants to know what it would be worth. I
>>want to know what it'd be worth, too. (There's going to be arguements....
>
>Shekels or dollars? :)
>
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>- limbo.netpath.net
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