[CLUE-Talk] SCO!

[Dennis J Perkins]

I was under the impression that Xenix became SCO Unix.  Am I mistaken?


Srbraukhof at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/11/03 9:43:25 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
> rraab at plusten.com writes:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> I beg to differ.  Xenix was originally written by MS for Tandy (yes 
> Radio Shack) for their Motorola based product, the 6000. The problem 
> the 6800 chips had at the time was theit inability to communicate with 
> hardware so a Z80 was used for the overhead.  SCO was running on IBM 
> PC/XT and clones in 1983.  I know because I was selling and supporting 
> both at the time.
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