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[Ben Duncan]

yeah, suffering from OFD myself. But, AT&T was specifically prohibited from
selling computer stuff until the telephone de-reg act back in the mid 1980's ..
ISC started selling UNIX back in the 1970's, mainly the PDP and Motorolla
ports. Dell UNIX (Which was a DOG!!!) was not sold unto the very
early 1990's  .....

I cannot remember if ISC had a I286 Version or not ....

I actually had the good (mis)fortune of being a sysadmin back in 1986 of a
3B2/400 then a 3000 Series VME based Motorolla Box.

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2003 09:05:05 -0500
> Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ahhh .. but ISC (Interactive) was the first to Market Commercial UNIX to
>>the world. And if so, they would have had the rights to Intel based code
>>as well, no?
> 
> 
> I bought AT&T Unix on intel before Interactive started selling, IIRC. There
> was also Dell Unix at that time, which also must have sorted out the intel
> stuff. It is all a blur today. But the intel specific stuff seems to have
> been done by more than one company. The AT&T Unix was sold direct by AT&T.
> Still have the floppies somewhere. Had a big binder full of them.
> 
> 
>>What I have found out today as a matter of fact, that AIX is based
>>on ISC's version (see:
>>
>>
>>  http://www.rootvg.net/column_risc.htm
>>
> 
> 


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