According to Brian G. Lucas <
bagel99@gmail.com>:
Nobody knew what the market for PC/IX was supposed to be beyond some
handwaving "if 5% if PC users buy it we'll be rich." PC/IX could do
anything a PDP-11 running Unix could do, give or take peripherals,
but the PC market was very different from the PDP-11 market and by
that time the PDP-11 was rather long in the tooth.
Maybe everyting except for lack of memory protection.
IBM sold it as a single user system.
The lack of memory protection turned out not to matter very much. Didn't we once
get a bug report for something that only failed after the system had been up continuously for a year?
It didn't help that PC/IX and Unix in general had very few applications for non-technical users. There was document processing with nroff and troff, with our INed screen editor, but what else?
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