[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[Ward Griffiths]

On 04/24/2005 02:54 pm, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> Dave,
> More people will correct me if I am wrong, but Xienx was orginaly a
> Microsoft product:
> a google search pulled this:
> In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at
> the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the
> name Xenix. Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed
> the software to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then
> provided a finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other
> customers.
>
> SCO introduced its first version of Xenix named SCO Xenix System V for the
> Intel 8086 and 8088 in 1983. Today SCO Xenix is one of the more commonly
> used and found versions of Xenix.

SCO started shipping Xenix for the x86 in September 1983.  Tandy started 
delivering Xenix for the 68k in January 1983.  Altos shipped before that on 
much more expensive 68k equipment than the TRS-80 Model 16.  The only other 
Xenix OEM I recall was IBM, and I don't recall when they shipped but it was 
after Tandy.  If Intel licensed Xenix, they certainly never sold it.

Microsoft never sold Xenix to end users because they were incompetent to make 
it a product.  But the porting effort did give them all of the ideas that 
went into DOS 2.0 and helped MS-DOS finally look like something other than a 
CP/M clone.
-- 
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