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Microsoft Xenix anyone?
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| jgribble 2002-01-25, 3:43 pm |
| For educational purposes, I am trying to track down a copy of Microsoft Xenix. Does anybody have a clue where I could obtain it. If you want, you can just email me if you know of anywhere. And for those who are wondering why a microsoft post in the unix forum, it is microsofts attempt at Unix. | |
| wbafrank 2002-01-25, 4:09 pm |
|  I thought that 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.
I may be wrong - someone may have more information. | |
| jgribble 2002-01-25, 4:22 pm |
| You are actually right but I think there are some copies of it floating around out there that is labeled as Microsoft Xenix, maybe be pre liscensing phase, I don't recall. It was licsensed to SCO later I beleive and they used it more than anyone. I think the release 5 was in 85 by microsoft and I was looking to find it somewhere. | |
| wbafrank 2002-01-25, 6:16 pm |
| Sorry, I can't help you there!! (Are we the only two who know about it?) | |
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| jgribble 2002-01-26, 1:39 am |
| To answer your question of why, well......uh..... welllllll, I don't really know, just a curiosity of it. I teach a server class and I brought up Xenix as a kind of trivia question, cause nobody seems to know about it these days besides those who have been using Unix for a while. And since then, I thought I would try to round up a copy just for my own curiosity and play with it. It's just rare, and that makes me curious, and it's Microsoft Unix, and that sounds like an oxymoron (not sure about the spelling) in itself.
But, thanks for the links, I am going to check them out right now.
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| Supertech 2002-01-26, 7:43 pm |
| That's the best reason I could think of.
love the Berkley quote... | |
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| xenix has been obsolete soince 1988 . . . . | |
| ccieToBe 2002-02-01, 12:07 am |
| I wonder how the stability and security of Xenix are considering it's a M$ OS and *nix at the same time  |
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