[CLUE-Talk] SCO!

G. Richard Raab rraab at plusten.com
Wed Jun 11 09:40:02 MDT 2003


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On Wednesday 11 June 2003 09:30 am, Srbraukhof at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/11/03 8:37:48 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>
> djperkins at americanisp.net writes:
> > SCO is now run by people who know nothing of the history of Unix.  They
> > are business people who somehow got control of the company.  And now
> > they think they see a change to hijack Linux.  They remind me of venture
> > capitalists who fund someone, then sieze the company, claiming the
> > founders are ruining the company.
>
> Amen to that.  SCO was the first version of Unix thet was available on an
> Intel platform (8088 to be precise).  SCO has ALWAYS acted more like a VAR
> than a developer.
> --------------------------------
> Scott R. Braukhoff
> (303) 979-3693
> (303) 921-6715

To be precise, Xenix was the first and it was developed by MS (later sold to 
SCO); it first ran on the 80286 (IIRC, it did not run on 8088), but even the 
286 was a broken chip.
- -- 
cheers
g.r.r.
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