rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (01/17/84)
[From the 1/16/84 COMPUTERWORLD (p.5)]
IBM micro gets Unix look-alike
RYE BROOK, N.Y. -- IBM announced last week that it will offer an
optimized version of the Bell Laboratories, Inc.'s Unix Operating
System for its Personal Computer and Personal Computer XT micro-
computers.
The operating system, called Personal Computer Interactive Execu-
tive (PC/IX), was adapted for use on the IBM micros by Interactive
Systems Corp., according to an IBM spokeswoman. She added that
PC/IX can run virtually all Unix programs commercially available
for microcomputers.
The operating system is available for a one-time license fee of
$900 and will be marketed through IBM's National Accounts and Nat-
ional Marketing Divisions.
[How do you pronounce PC/IX? pee-cee-icks? piss-icks? PC-ick?]
--From the fumbling fingers of dick wexelblatrpw3@fortune.UUCP (01/20/84)
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fortune!rpw3 Jan 19 14:06:00 1984
[Warning: May be offensive to New York residents who don't like puns ]
Pronunciation of PC/IX? Considering its family tree,
it looks kind of puh-KICKS'y to me.
Rob Warnock
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