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Re: [LUG] OT: VMS 30 today

 

Paul Sutton wrote:
> Tom Potts wrote:
>> On Thursday 08 November 2007 18:40, Martinus Scriblerus wrote:
>>   
>>> On Nov 8, 2007 7:49 AM, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Wednesday 07 November 2007 18:06, Rob Beard wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>>> yours if you want it,  along with a case, and the mentioned 286 or
>>>>>> 386.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If it is a 286 I may be able to dig out a set of Xenix discs for it!
>>>>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Xenix?  Wasn't that Microsoft's flavour of Unix?
>>>>>         
>>>> I think these were from the company that bought it up - Santa Clause
>>>> Operation or something before they turned to the really dark side
>>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>>       
>>> No, Microsoft sold Xenix when they went on to develop OS/2.
>>>     
>> I think I said that.....
>>
>>
>>   
> I thought OS/2 was an ibm operating system
> 
> paul
> 

This will explain more about the OS/2 story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

I used to have a copy of MS OS/2, ran really well on a 486 :-)

Rob

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