Date   : Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:57:06 +0000
From   : tony.noble@... (Tony Noble)
Subject: OT PC architecture

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010@... AM, Rick Murray <rick@...> wrote:

>
> I wonder how Unixen worked pre-386? I know a lot of modern Linux-likes
> won't run on earlier hardware, however the concept predates the
> introduction of the 386. Was any sort of Unix released for earlier x86s?
>

Indeed there was: Xenix.  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix ).  Released
by, of all people, Microsoft, and later sold to everybody's favourite bad
guy - SCO.

It ran on 8088s onwards.  I have a full set of manuals that I inherited for
it somewhere, though no installation disks.

Tony