Re: [cobalt-users] The Apple Raq

[Bill Campbell <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:01:26PM -0700, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>Grant Stern wrote:
>
>> Because, in case you haven't been following developments (for the last three
>> years) Apple today is THE WORLDS LARGEST PROVIDER OF UNIX OPERATING SYSTEMS
>> and if you use *nix, that's pretty hard to ignore.
>
>And if you'd check the history books, you'd note that in 1981 Microsoft
>was the world's largest commercial vendor of Unix operating systems. 
>(MS-Xenix for the TRS-80 Model II)

Actually Xenix for the Radio Shack Model 16 was released in the 4th quarter
of 1992.  The Model 16 had a Motorola 68000 board which used the Z80 in
it's Model II heart as an I/O processor.  The Model II only ran TRS-DOS and
CP/M, not Xenix without the 68k upgrade.

The Xenix run-time system came on fewer than 6 8in 640k floppies, and would
fit with the optional development system on a 12MB hard drive (you needed
to buy the development system to get niceties like the vi editor so I
always sold both run-time and devsys).

Bill
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