Thankyou Pete, My memory isn't as good as it once was. ;-)
On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:12, Pete Holsberg Inscribed Thus: > Gaffer wrote: > > Hello Pete, > > > > On Saturday 04 November 2006 00:23, Pete Holsberg Inscribed Thus: > >> Remember that, in the 1980s, Microsoft was working on its own > >> version of UNIX. They licensed it from AT&T and renamed it Xenix. > >> /Deja vu/? > > > > Indeed ! But wasn't there some agreement that prevented M$ > > marketing it ! > > "Microsoft did not sell Xenix directly to end users; instead, they > licensed it to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO, who > then ported <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting> it to their own > proprietary computer architectures > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture>. Microsoft Xenix > originally ran on the PDP-11 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11>; > the first port <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting> was for the > Zilog <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog> Z8001 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z8001> 16-bit processor > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit>. Altos > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_%28company%29> shipped a version > for their computers early in 1982 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982>, Tandy Corporation shipped > *TRS-XENIX* for their 68000 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68000>-based systems in January 1983 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983>, and SCO released their port to > the Intel 8086 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086> processor in > September 1983 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983>. A port to the > 68000-based Apple Lisa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa> also > existed. At the time, Xenix was based on AT&T's UNIX System III > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_III>. > > "Version 2.0 of Xenix was released in 1985 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985> and was based on UNIX System V > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V>. An update numbered > 2.1.1 added support for the Intel 80286 > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80286> processor. Subsequent > releases improved System V compatibility. > > "When Microsoft entered into an agreement with IBM > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Machines> to > develop OS/2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2>, it lost interest in > promoting Xenix. In 1987 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987> > Microsoft transferred ownership of Xenix to SCO in an agreement that > left Microsoft owning 25% of SCO." -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
