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A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)


[update December 2021: files for 86Box install at update December 2020: Dell Unix on 86Box “Today let me present Dell Unix more properly, with 1024×768, 256 colors video and proper networking…

That team embarked on the ill-fated “ Olympic Project,” intended to span “desktop, workstation and server markets, with single and dual processors and many different operating systems”, in Michael’s words. I’m not exactly sure when they joined, but some of the other developers to come on board were Richard Amberg, Donn Baumgartner, Jeremy Chatfield, Alan Davis, George Durden, Dave McCracken and Ron McDowell. Uniplex X Windows applications include word processing, a spreadsheet, the Informix SQL (structured query language) relational database, advanced business graphics, electronic mail and more.”

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