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Subject: UNIX for the PC?!
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Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 08:27:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 08:27:00 1984
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[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 wexelblat