From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 8b937a5f for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2020 16:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0E3D99BCC1; Thu, 9 Jan 2020 02:57:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065609BCAE; Thu, 9 Jan 2020 02:56:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 535D59BCA9; Thu, 9 Jan 2020 02:56:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com (mail-pg1-f195.google.com [209.85.215.195]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D60F6945FC for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2020 02:56:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id s64so1849542pgb.9 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:56:36 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:organization :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-language; bh=rM3k9XXhoztPvwmyv406ki3pS4TYyrut/G3oJ7T99XY=; b=RzdsrEIJ9Y0jAg9ANM3km96+h0yiJCOpTS/kms3Bzpds+64Sq8cXB55IGTw/aE1heY hPpOpl6wlO1qPs8fapg+jbnN7u6IHvsA+D0c6adCl5IIs3n5+cyEaLUnUv0EChMZLD/h VzahOrwFTXikIOi/tkrGe9nGCKoAgYe+YGSI3AkSGEsNStsjFpLP8zTb+yMYojphLqFf fk4BlfA9iha5g6ASXUAeqaBlpkcGQprbKSOOSYdDp+rN+wUsFC215n/0XJ0ovYY0iRy+ JrS4gUd4ESvSu0N3c4I6k1RvJo83/6VxEXgmjrxRRzxGPAZtdOsabXgnKipWZ13WH49M D5Fw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUWSA6Wt/KXl9YLKWiBnaVgek0OsjNU93wRwyLAzt2NW5qfl1d+ re4YrSA6SvQztdzuhZlUeseSafhj03E= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqwywRYV+76nWMmhC2yp41zUhAXcCHwaht7kswF7CxoMCppB9L62y9ID57OmCtN3PiQOuER71Q== X-Received: by 2002:aa7:8096:: with SMTP id v22mr6011977pff.240.1578502596061; Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:56:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.98.155] (rrcs-67-52-165-210.west.biz.rr.com. [67.52.165.210]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x65sm4660770pfb.171.2020.01.08.08.56.34 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:56:35 -0800 (PST) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <20200107105615.GA16081@minnie.tuhs.org> <81a090b1892b04644c0357805bb75440@firemail.de> From: Heinz Lycklama Organization: Open Systems Technology Associates Message-ID: <2808f855-7525-52b9-3d18-1e95580f2e62@osta.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 08:56:33 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <81a090b1892b04644c0357805bb75440@firemail.de> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------2EE082649EA2C213F2E4B784" Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: heinz@osta.com Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2EE082649EA2C213F2E4B784 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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)*_ [founded in 1977] with PC/IX, and later IS/3, etc.     2. _*Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)*_ [founded in 1979] with SCO UNIX, etc. There were also a number of smaller players in this space. --------------2EE082649EA2C213F2E4B784 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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) [founded in 1977] with PC/IX, and later IS/3, etc.
    2. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) [founded in 1979] with SCO UNIX, etc.
There were also a number of smaller players in this space. --------------2EE082649EA2C213F2E4B784--