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From: Peter Cetinski <pete@pski.net>
To: reed@reedmedia.net
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:21:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EE9711F7-B378-4A5B-8D55-BA6C4F558EC9@pski.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2001071617230.50@t1.m.reedmedia.net>


> On Jan 7, 2020, at 5:22 PM, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
> 
> What happened with XENIX?  I know it had some success (I used at least 
> one retired system with it), but nothing near the other offerings on the 
> PC family.

XENIX was staged for greatness until Microsoft decided they did not want to be subject to the AT&T license long term with all the potential issues that could arise by not being in complete control of their operating system.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 23:21 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
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 [this message]
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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