chuq@cae780.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (01/13/84)
I saw a story in the paper today which said that IBM has announce the Unix
operating system for the IBM PC. A PC with 256K of memory, a 10Mbyte hard
disc, and $900 can buy the new PC/IX operating system, which was ported by
Interactive Systems for IBM. There wasn't a great amount of detail, but IS
specializes in System III, I think. There was a comment about making it
easier to talk to companies big machines, so I assume that it supports
uucp, which I don't believe Coherent does. Anybody out there know more
about this? (It may actually get my to buy a computer!)
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-- Diogenes looked in and laughed--
From the dungeons of the warlock Chuqui the Plaid
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- Winslow Leechjohnl@haddock.UUCP (01/20/84)
#R:cae780:-32800:haddock:16700001:000:507 haddock!johnl Jan 17 00:00:00 1984 PC/IX is a full implementation of System III Unix, including the C compiler, assembler, linker, archiver, all of SCCS, two editors, nroff, so on and so forth. It includes uucp and traditional Bell mail. Uucp supports Hayes and Ven-tel autodialer programs, and it's not hard to add support for new dialers, since it dials by calling a dialer-specific program from a library directory. Amazingly enough, uucp worked on the PC the first time I compiled it. Now that's portable code. John Levine, ima!johnl