The claim for jealousy guarding the trademarked UNIX name was because MaBell was regulated and wasn't allowed to get into the retail trade, although that always rang a trifle hollow to me.īefore SCO's port was released, there was a TRS-68000 version, a Zilog Z8001 port, and an Altos 8086 version (not necessarily in that order, my mind is concatenating time). The name Xenix came about because Ma Bell couldn't (or didn't want to) let them use the UNIX name. although looking back, it was a pretty good hack by SCO! Hindsight's 20/20. Yes, the very same machine that shipped with MS-DOS. Microsoft never actually coded anything for Xenix, rather they sub-licensed the AT&T source code to third parties, who did the actual coding and porting.įor example, it was SCO who ported it to the IBM PC's 8086/8088 architecture in roughly 1983. It was the exact same bog standard PDP11 Version 7 Unix that I had access to at UCB. Xenix was actually licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in 1979. Re: The horrors and blessings of the console
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