C integral types [was Re: Semi-OT: Why Kids Can't use Computers] (fwd)

Tue Aug 20 06:20:38 UTC 2013

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:48:29PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Reasonable choices of OS for PCs over the years.
> 
> - DOS
> 
> - From Digital Research: CP/M 86, MP/M (multitasking version), DrDOS
> 
> - UCSD Pascal
> 
> - various genuine UNIXes (quite a few good ones once the 386 came
>   out).  Xenix worked well on 286s (I ran it on an 8086).
> 
> - UNIX clones: Coherent, Whitesmith's Idris, Minix, and others I've forgotten

I actually bought Coherent which was one of first roadkill by Linux!

> 
> - BeOS
> 
> - modern UNIXes: *BSD, Linux, OSX, Solaris

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William
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