[CLUE-Talk] SCO!

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Wednesday 11 June 2003 09:51 am, 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.
> --------------------------------
> Scott R. Braukhoff
> (303) 979-3693
> (303) 921-6715


Don't beg. Bad for the image :)

I ran and coded on Xenix back in '84 and I was under the impression then, that 
it was the first time out. Upon your email, did some googleing and man was I 
off. According to the caldera site, you are a lot closer to the truth than I 
was (assuming that we can trust caldera on this :) )


http://www.caldera.com/company/history.html

thanx for the info
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cheers
g.r.r.
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