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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: UNOS (was: Whence Unix? (was Re: IS UNIX DEAD?) (New Thread?))
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:55:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <By599B.4E8@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <hT8BrAbBBh107h@lorc.UUCP> <1992Nov20.183900.16110@bilver.uucp> <9211212055.50@rmkhome.UUCP>
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- In article <9211212055.50@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
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- >Before Tandy went to Microsoft, they went to Charles River Data Systems.
- >CRDS ships a real time UNIX compatible OS called UNOS. Since CRDS was
- >already shipping on the 68000, Tandy figured that it was a natural. The
- >problem was that CRDS couldn't shrink their base + development system
- >to leave enough space on a 5 megabyte winchester to suit Tandy's fancy,
- >so they went to Xenix.
- >
- >To this day there are remnants of Tandy support code in UNOS.
- .
- .
- .
- That's OK; I know of one DBMS company that has
- UNOS #ifdef-s in its source code. It took a
- few years for CRDS to get *truly* compatible.
- --
-
- Cameron Laird
- claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966
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