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From: ccastks@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix on the ibm pc?
Summary: IBM PC, Unix, PC/IX
Message-ID: <5757@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 May 88 16:23:44 GMT
References: <1321MLWLG@CUNYVM>
Reply-To: ccastks@pyr.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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In article <1321MLWLG@CUNYVM> MLWLG@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I have asked been asking around if anybody knows of a unix system for
>for the ibm pc (compatibles...), but the answers were no.
>

This Kindof depends on what you want to do....

First, I assume that you are talking about the PC and not the PC/AT....

That said, the answer, techinically, is yes, there is a real unix
availible for the PC (as opposed to a toy or educational system, a la
xinu and minix).  Interactive Systems at one time sold a product called
PC/IX which was a port of System III.  It is real, and apparently does
run (Tannenbaum used PC/IX to write minix).

I don't know if its still availible and I have never used it (or any other
System III product).

I have a lot of respect for Interactive if it does work even a little.
No address space protection, slow as tar machine, etc, etc...

DISCLAIMER: I see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing...and i don't 
	work for Interactive.

	ken seefried iii
	ken@gatech.edu