boomer3200
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I am interested in Microport's distributions of UNIX as clean,
full ports of historical System V for old personal computers
based on Intel processors (286/386).
I have seen the System V/AT distribution of System V Release 2
from circa 1986-87 around, but have not been able to determine
if Release 4 actually ever shipped from Microport after a long
period of googling and old computer journal research at the
library. The release 4 distribution would be particularly
interesting because other 386 variants appear to be either
incomplete implementations of Release 3 (Interactive UNIX, Xenix,
SCO Unix) or modified in Release 4.2 as variants of UnixWare
after 1992. I know that Microport ceased developing an internal
product and carried re-branded UnixWare after 1992, but is a
clean version of Release 4 from Microport out there? Somewhere I
saw a person refer to Microport's version of Release 4 as "System
V/386," but that is actually a Xenix label as far as I can tell.
Any help you could provide in tracking down a copy or just
the history of the Microport distributions would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
boomer3200
full ports of historical System V for old personal computers
based on Intel processors (286/386).
I have seen the System V/AT distribution of System V Release 2
from circa 1986-87 around, but have not been able to determine
if Release 4 actually ever shipped from Microport after a long
period of googling and old computer journal research at the
library. The release 4 distribution would be particularly
interesting because other 386 variants appear to be either
incomplete implementations of Release 3 (Interactive UNIX, Xenix,
SCO Unix) or modified in Release 4.2 as variants of UnixWare
after 1992. I know that Microport ceased developing an internal
product and carried re-branded UnixWare after 1992, but is a
clean version of Release 4 from Microport out there? Somewhere I
saw a person refer to Microport's version of Release 4 as "System
V/386," but that is actually a Xenix label as far as I can tell.
Any help you could provide in tracking down a copy or just
the history of the Microport distributions would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
boomer3200