Peter,
Actually, this is not the case. SCO was already in business for some time
when Xenix came into being. They were working with Microsoft as was the
company I was working with at the time, Forward Technology on Motorola 68000
ports of the OS. The later Intel 80286 port was done with Intel, and was
available for their first 80286 system level products, which I had the
dubious honor of working with in my next job.
Life is sure a *lot* nicer these days with a stable Linux to be able to
use.... :-)
Best Regards,
Tim Kehres
International Messaging Associates
http://www.ima.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: mail.firewalls
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, June 12, 1999 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: Why not NT?
In article <004f01beade3$94961dc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Kelloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In keeping the above in mind, are you implying that the all businesses
>should be using XENIX? (Side note: It's kind of funny that XENIX was
>originally developed by Microsoft in 1980...)
Xenix was a port of Version 7 UNIX from the PDP-11 to the 8086 by
a group at Microsoft that later split off to become Santa Cruz Operation:
Microsoft dropped Xenix, which was probably the best work they ever did,
and no longer has the people involved.
SCO later re-did the port using an early version of System V, and this
work was later merged in with SCO's SVR3 port to become Open Desktop.
--
In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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