wasn't their choice really... this computer sits inside this huge IC
testing machine, the OS was the manufacturer decision (bad one IMO)

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should slap whatever employer decided to use Xenix as an operating
> system.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Xenix was a joint venture between SCO and Microsoft. Mostly SCO stuff,
>> very very close to SCO Unix, in fact the only way to access data on
>> the FS using another OS is to mount it with SCO OpenServer. Ugly
>> situation.
>>
>> There aren't many people that know this crappy OS (no wonder) and
>> google searches yield unix results mostly.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Dante,
>> >  before anyone can help you - you have to recite the complete license
>> > agreement and history of attempts to claim ownership of said operating
>> > system.
>> >
>> > Is it Microsoft?  Original "Santa Cruz Operation"?  "SCO Group"?
>> > Caldera?  Novell?
>> >
>> > Oh, and regardless of who owns it, you probably own money to Darl
>> > McBride.
>> >
>> > Anyway, all jokes aside, the closest I got to either Xenix or SCO Unix
>> > was to discover a filesystem on a drive, and then i reformatted it so I
>> > could use it.  Good luck with your search - there aren't many people who
>> > know that particular OS.
>> >
>> >
>> > Dante Lanznaster wrote:
>> >> Hey people,
>> >>
>> >> Anyone in the list has experience with Xenix? Or some sort of SCO
>> >> Unix? I have 3 machines to do recovery on, and situation is rough,
>> >> could use some help...
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>
>> >> Dante
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