[Novalug] History available

[Jay Hart]

Better make sure SCOX doesn't have any patent/copyright claims left
outstanding...

Jay

> The time has come to admit that I'm never going to install System
> V Unix from 5.25" floppy disks again.
>
> I've got the full distro kit for Microport System V Unix, suitable for
> a 386 or better processor.  All the docs, floppies, etc.
>
> For the newer folks - in 1987. Microport was the first commercial
> System 5 Unix for the PC platforms.  SCO sold a Version 7 (or maybe
> System III) kernel with many hacks that passed the System 5
> compatibility suite, but Microport was honest and true *real* System V
> Unix.
>
> I'm loathe to toss this stuff in the dumpster, but I really have better
> uses for the space it's occupying.
>
> Would anyone be interested in this bit of history?
>
> I might point out that System V Unix in 1988 supported UUCP and
> many fast 2400b modems, but did not support networking as we know it
> today or X Windows.
>
> Clif
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> ... Clif Flynt ... http://www.cwflynt.com ... clif at cflynt.com ...
> .. Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide (2nd edition) - Morgan Kauffman ..
> . 15'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference:  Oct 20-25 2008,  Manassas VA .
> .............  http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2008/  ............
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