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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:984 comp.os.386bsd.misc:807 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Message-ID: <1993Aug30.220424.16577@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <CC9F8J.Fvo@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <25d4tg$3d5@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 22:04:24 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes: [ ... MS getting UNIX functionality on Xenix ... ] >Actually they never quite got this to work correctly, so a couple of >Hippie Computer guru's in Santa Cruz, CA got together and bought into >Xenix with exclusive distribution rights, and worked all the bugs out of >the Microsoft code. Can you say SCO? (1) Doug has never struck me as a hippie -- but then again, some of the people he hires fit that bill. 8-). (2) The Tandy 6000 is a 68000 based Xenix box; Altos also went the Xenix route with a number of their boxes, so SCO isn't alone. (3) I believe the first Xenix ran on Sun 3/60's at Microsoft -- I used to work for a comm software company, and someone at Microsoft called and asked if we'd run on this -- then said "Oh, I guess not; that's an internal product". Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.