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From: Heinz Lycklama <heinz@osta.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 08:56:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2808f855-7525-52b9-3d18-1e95580f2e62@osta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81a090b1892b04644c0357805bb75440@firemail.de>

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On 1/7/2020 11:46 PM, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
>> Hell, Linux didn't exist at all till '91.
>> I think Xenix was more just a casualty of the Unix Wars.  The victors there
>> were SunOS/Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.  There were a bunch more walking
>> wounded that never really achieved much market share.
> 'In the mid-to-late 1980s, XENIX was the most common UNIX variant, measured according to the number of machines on which it was installed.'
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
Two other major vendors competing with Xenix were:
     1. _*INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. (ISC)*_ 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Systems_Corporation> [founded 
in 1977] with PC/IX, and later IS/3, etc.
     2. _*Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)*_ 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation> [founded in 1979] 
with SCO UNIX, etc.
There were also a number of smaller players in this space.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-08 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 10:56 [TUHS] Unix/World Magazines Warren Toomey
2020-01-07 22:22 ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) reed
2020-01-07 23:12   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-07 23:27     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-07 23:36       ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-08  7:46         ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08 12:40           ` Matt Rudge
2020-01-08 16:56           ` Heinz Lycklama [this message]
2020-01-08 22:46             ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-01-08  7:46         ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-08  0:44     ` [TUHS] XENIX and Linux (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 22:15     ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) Dave Horsfall
2020-01-08 23:29       ` Harald Arnesen
2020-01-09  0:01         ` ron
2020-01-09  0:19           ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-09  0:19         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  3:25         ` David Arnold
2020-01-09  4:56           ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-07 23:21   ` Peter Cetinski
2020-01-08  0:50   ` [TUHS] IBM PC and XENIX (was: What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08  2:58     ` reed
2020-01-08 12:18   ` [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? Michael Kjörling
2020-01-08 21:55     ` [TUHS] Dating quotes (was: What happened with XENIX?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-08 23:48       ` reed

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