[cap-talk] Capability past and future. CORBA (YURLs?), embedded OS

[Nigel Williams]

Jed wrote:
> I agree with all the above, but despite the fragmentation and the
> concerns, there really was no alternative.  All the major vendors
> (except of course Microsoft) were supplying versions of Unix.

(a reminder)

even Microsoft supplied a version of UNIX via Xenix
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix), circa 1979 through to 1987
(internally until 1992) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

One reason we never used Xenix at the time was it was considered too
commercial, too shrinked-wrapped, and missed out on all the "benefits"
of the BSD community.

nigwil