Xenix ?

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Nov 11 16:06:40 2001

> > Remember, Xenix was originally a Microsoft product, they then sold it off
> > to SCO (for a % ownership in SCO)
> >
>
> Actually Xenix was never a Microsoft branded product. It was Microsoft's
> but they only sold Xenix as OEM'd versions to vendors like SCO and lots
> of HW vendors who then added they modifications to support their specific
> products (like Apricot, whose machines were far from plain PCs).

We may not all mean the same thing by "branded", but ISTR
seeing the banner "Microsoft XENIX" on that Radio Shack 68000
machine whose model number I can never recall...

-dq
Received on Sun Nov 11 2001 - 16:06:40 GMT