From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 1415 invoked from network); 21 Oct 2023 07:11:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Oct 2023 07:11:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E86C42439; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:11:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lists.tip.net.au (pasta.tip.net.au [IPv6:2401:fc00:0:129::2]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77F3442438 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:11:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtpclient.apple (203-214-32-99.dyn.iinet.net.au [203.214.32.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.tip.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4SCCL43lBfz9QvK; Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:11:24 +1100 (AEDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3774.100.2.1.4\)) From: steve jenkin In-Reply-To: <20231021062736.GB77759@eureka.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:11:13 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20231021062736.GB77759@eureka.lemis.com> To: TUHS X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3774.100.2.1.4) Message-ID-Hash: QXDBIARVOTGQLCS6YT6LC7SG3RKPGR6H X-Message-ID-Hash: QXDBIARVOTGQLCS6YT6LC7SG3RKPGR6H X-MailFrom: sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Date & event of 1980 Xenix release. 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: > On 21 Oct 2023, at 17:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >=20 > 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. -- Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design=20 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA