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I clearly recall working in the second half of the 80's with 32 bit BSD 4.2 on DEC VAX and MC68K based SUN 3/50 with SunOS 3 after working for years with AT&T Unix v7 on 16 bit DEC pdp11 model 70.
Unix on Intel did not appear before Andrew S. Tanenbaum released Minix in 1987 while Linus Torvalds released Linux in 1992 having used Minix as platform to develop it.
The timeline pictured in your reply could have benefited from googling Unix timeline.
> Unix on Intel did not appear before Andrew S. Tanenbaum released Minix in 1987
That's not true.
The Sun 386i Workstation was officially launched in April 1988, having been under development for more than a year prior to that date, independently of Tanenbaum's book and Minix. It ran SunOS 4.0, which was a derivative of BSD.
On a slightly different train of thought, Bill Jolitz's port of 4.3BSD to i386 was released in early 1992. It was called, at first, 386BSD, later became FreeBSD.
Reading the Wikipedia on Xenix is like seeing history flying by.
A few things from it.
"In 1987, SCO ported XENIX to the 386 processor, a 32-bit chip, after securing knowledge from Microsoft insiders that Microsoft was no longer developing XENIX".
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"Microsoft, which expected that UNIX would be its operating system of the future when personal computers became powerful enough,[4] purchased a license for Version 7 UNIX from AT&T in 1978,".
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"Microsoft hopes that XENIX will become the preferred choice for software production and exchange", the company stated in 1981.[8] Microsoft referred to its own MS-DOS as its "single-user, single-tasking operating system",[33] and advised customers that wanted multiuser or multitasking support to buy XENIX.
Sadly Gates got greedy and created the first and largest IT catastrophe in history so far - Windows.
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