From: steve jenkin <sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au>
To: TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:11:13 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E2BF935F-4B08-40A4-9BC5-6C8BA42A8CAA@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231021062736.GB77759@eureka.lemis.com>
Date & event of 1980 Xenix release.
<https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-April/023688.html>
Xenix was a version of AT&T UNIX, ported and packaged by Microsoft.
It was first offered for sale to the public in the August 25, 1980 issue of Computerworld.
Source:
<http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html>
> On 21 Oct 2023, at 17:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
> I've done a bit of searching and found this link:
> https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsofts-xenix which
> tells me that Microsoft (really their SCO) licensed 7th Edition Unix
> in 1978 and brought out a product 2 years later. That seems
> plausible.
--
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-20 23:27 [TUHS] " Skip Tavakkolian
2023-10-21 0:36 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-10-21 0:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-10-21 1:04 ` Jim Geist
2023-10-21 2:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-10-21 2:27 ` John Cowan
2023-10-21 6:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-10-21 7:11 ` steve jenkin [this message]
2023-10-21 18:21 ` Stuff Received
2023-10-21 15:36 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-10-21 16:38 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-10-21 16:40 ` John Cowan
2023-10-24 7:58 ` Sebastien F4GRX
2023-10-22 16:44 ` Paul Winalski
2023-10-22 16:56 ` Jim Geist
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