PC-UX is a discontinued
NEC port of
UNIX System III for their
APC III
The NEC APC (Advanced Personal Computer), APC II and APC III were the international versions of models from the Japanese NEC N5200 series. The 8086-based N5200, released in 1981, was the first computer to use the NEC µPD7220 High-Performance Gr ...
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PC-9801 personal computer. It had extensive graphics capability. PC-UX and
MS-DOS could reside on the same
hard drive. It also had file transfer utilities that allowed files between PC-UX and MS-DOS. There was the PC-UX Softcard which allowed extremely high performance, reliability and memory utilization.
In 1985, the suggested retail price for PC-UX on APC III was $700.
NEC's subsequent port of
UNIX System V was called PC-UX/V.
See also
*
Xenix for AT etc.
References
Discontinued operating systems
NEC software
Unix variants
X86 operating systems
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