Xenix ?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sun Nov 11 16:45:43 2001

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> > > 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
>
Probably the Model 16. Xenix Operating System was copyright 1983 by
Microsoft and licensed to Tandy and others.

                                                 - don
Received on Sun Nov 11 2001 - 16:45:43 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:34:15 BST