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Comment by sidewndr46

18 days ago

I have 5.25 diskettes of "Microsoft Linux" from the 1990s. I'm reasonably certain that was the first.

Microsoft published its own UNIX from 1980 to 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix?wprov=sfla1

  • Xenix was Microsoft's first operating system, it predates DOS.

    Admittedly, Microsoft did not actually write Xenix. They bought a System3 source license from AT&T and used that as a base, Their main service model was to port it to various systems.

    Fun Fact: Xenix was the main reason a partition table was included when the PC first got hard disk support.

    • They developed something called M-DOS or MIDAS in 1979, but by that time CP/M was already established, so they decided against releasing it.

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