taylor (01/29/83)
My roommate went to USENIX on Thursday (alas, I had a DOD Program Spec due Friday, so I couldn't take any time off) and amongst all the promo throw-aways, there was a really intriguing series of CPU boards offered for the PC... Amongst the ones that I can remember were the 8086, Z80B and (!!!!) M68000 !!! And (and this is a big AND) the company claimed that they had UNIX System III running! Not only that, they are planning a compatible board with the new National Semiconductor 32-bit chip (the 18000, or something...??) that will feature 4.2BSD!!!! Also, another company is supossed to have XENIX running on the regular PC, with more memory only! And XENIX is supposedly the best of the pseudo-UNIX systems! Anyone else heard of any of this, or did my roommate stop off at a printer and pull a fast one on me? (Amazing how all the paragraphs seem to start with 'a'!) -- Dave Taylor