Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!bikini!bb From: bb@shark.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The Unix story straight (was Re: Microsoft OS/2?) Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 02:18:15 GMT References: <70447@microsoft.UUCP> <3172@unccvax.uncc.edu> <70662@microsoft.UUCP> <1991Feb18.180523.12409@kithrup.COM> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: /cis/lightning0/bb/.organization Lines: 28 In-reply-to: sef@kithrup.COM's message of 18 Feb 91 18:05:23 GMT In article <70662@microsoft.UUCP> edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) writes: > 2. The derivative Unix for '386, called Xenix, is the best > selling Unix in the world. (Note I did not say "is the > best Unix in the world"!) In article <1991Feb18.180523.12409@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > XENIX runs on '286s (well, and xt's, if you want to count them 8-)) as > well; the 286's are the reasons for the "best selling," I believe. ---- Actually, the real reason is that quite a few large corperations (McDonald's Hamburgers, for instance) use a cash register/inventory system where the "cash registers" are actually terminals driven off a XENIX system in the back of the store. -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com