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To: Keith Hankin who wrote (16825)	1/27/1998 10:58:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Keith, >>When did RMX come out? I used to work for a company that some of you may remember called Microport. We developed a port of UNIX for 80286 machines back in 1986-87 timeframe. RMX is an Intel product and for some reason 1978 comes to mind but it may have been later. Intel also used to have an RMX/OS chip (80130?? not sure about the number) to speed some things up. Here is something I think you might find humorous: One time I needed to port the serial port driver from the embedded 86/35 SBC to the IBM PC. Since all the hardware (processor, interrupt controller, serial chip) was the same I decided to take the assembly code written for RMX using Intel's ASM86 assembler and run it through Microsoft's MASM 5.1 and then correct any errors caused by the different assembler commands. Much to my surprise the only difference between the two was that Intel wanted the underscores on one end of public labels and Microsoft wanted them on the other! I guess moving the underscores around is what Reg calls innovation... Take it easy, Norm