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To: nickcarraway

> SCO

I had no idea that was still around. I developed on Xenix 286, Xenix 386 and SCO UNIX.

My understanding is that “Xenix” was the first commercial microcomputer port of UNIX. Oh and it was a Microsoft trademark! So Microsoft was first to market selling microcomputer UNIX. Just like the first Windows phones (which I had as well) — too early!


13 posted on 01/17/2023 2:52:31 PM PST by old-ager
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To: old-ager
Xenix was a port of System 7 as sold to Microsoft by Bell Labs. I still have a TRS80 Model 16A running the 68000 version of Xenix. I worked directly with David Korn to port his Korn shell to 30 different UNIX/Xenix environments. It was always fun when I found a bug and reported it to David. He would confirm the bug in his master source code base. I often sent a suggested fix and it was often accepted.
21 posted on 01/17/2023 4:16:06 PM PST by Myrddin
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