[net.general] National's Genix on IBM PC's

chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/31/84)

BOSTON, Mass., May 15, 1984  -- National Semiconductor Corporation
today announced it has entered into an agreement with IBM's Academic
Information Systems Business Unit (ACIS) in which National will supply
a version of its GENIX32 operating system.

The software, based on Berkeley 4.2bsd UNIX, is being developed by
National's Microcomputer Systems Division as an extension of the
division's current UNIX activities.  IBM's ACIS unit will use the
software experimentally in several university projects.

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UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
GENIX32 is a trademark of National Semiconductor Corporation.
4.2bsd was derived from UNIX by the University of California at
Berkeley.

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I'm sure I have my death ray in here somewhere...