From: lars@fwn.rug.nl (Lars Buitinck)
Subject: [pups] Interesting PDP/Xenix History
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:24:11 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1017271451.3ca2549b6692c@w3.fwn.rug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CA116A5.59F6B603@pacbell.net>
I'm getting really confused with all these companies. If I understand
correctly...
AT&T/Western Electric sold UNIX rights to Microsoft.
Microsoft had HCR develop XENIX from V7.
SCO licensed XENIX from Microsoft.
SCO then subsubsublicensed XENIX to various vendors.
Please correct me. I must be wrong.
(What happened to our MERT discussion anyway? :-)
Long & winding PS.: I read this really cute book about Linux at my local
library some time ago. It discussed UNIX, Linux, their relation, and the
current state of affairs when it was written -- in 1994. The book
started out with an etymology of XENIX, which would have been derived
from Dutch "'k Zie niks," meaning "I don't see a thing" -- the first
thing Dutch users uttered when XENIX booted.
Last year, I talked to a fellow member of the HCC (Hobby Computer Club)
UNIX gg (gebruikersgroep, user group) who remembered his worst
experience with UNIX -- having to use XENIX. He was still shocked by its
Microsoftian performance.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-27 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-25 2:39 Frank Wortner
2002-03-25 10:15 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-03-25 15:18 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-26 7:41 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-26 18:06 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-25 10:38 ` Robert Tillyard
2002-03-26 23:41 ` Warren Toomey
2002-03-27 0:47 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-27 23:24 ` Lars Buitinck [this message]
2002-03-27 23:58 ` Michael Davidson
2002-03-29 21:36 ` Lars Buitinck
2002-03-28 1:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2002-03-28 2:33 ` Peter Jeremy
2002-03-30 11:03 ` Lars Buitinck
2002-03-30 23:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-03 9:52 asmodai
2002-04-03 9:49 asmodai
2002-04-03 9:14 Fred N. van Kempen
2002-04-03 9:45 ` quapla
2002-04-03 16:25 ` Michael Davidson
2002-04-02 22:38 asmodai
2002-04-03 3:31 ` Frank Wortner
2002-03-23 19:43 Martin Crehan
2002-03-24 4:26 ` Warren Toomey
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