Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC

In article <vq4jrl$1cguk$1@dont-email.me>, bagel99@gmail.com (Brian G.
Lucas) wrote:

On 3/2/25 5:27 PM, John Levine wrote:

Yup.  PC/IX was a really nice Unix port for the IBM PC and nobody
was interested.

As this (the kernel part) was my project, it was very
disappointing.  I think IBM priced such that with DOS being "free",
it had no chance.

Also, timing. According to Wikipedia, PC/IX cost $900 and was released in
1984. By that time, there was a lot of business software and games
available for DOS, but presumably, very little for PC/IX?

John