Xenix was also a popular option for the TRS-80 Model II/12/16/6000 series.
--Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Xenix ?
> >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).
>
> Tandy sold a version for the Model 2000, as well as some of
> the later TRS-80 badged machines. The Model 2000's version didn't
> work well at all and brought to light all kinds of nasty bugs in the
> machine that didn't otherwise show up. Most of the later service
> bulletins released by Tandy for the machine were geared towards
> fixing these bugs under Xenix.
>
> Jeff
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