Anton Aylward wrote:
On 06/09/2014 02:00 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I respectfully disagree about UNIX "just working". It was expensive in that you had to run it on expensive hardware. Most folks didn't run UNIX on x86 home-based systems, for example.
NOT!
Towards the end of the 1980s and early 1990s there were a large number of x86 systems. You might have heard of, for example, SCO.
If you wanted to spend $thousands to obtain it.
But there was also a number small firms , such as Convergent, which grew big enough to swallow SCO.
Oh, and there was also this port of UNIX to a variety of microprocessors including the 8086 and 80286 called XENIX.
It was from Microsoft.
Xenix was licensed from AT&T, then sold to SCO. Part of the sale included a clause which prohibited Microsoft from competing in the Unix sphere. This is what brought about the Microsoft campaign to discredit and attempt to destroy everything having to do with Unix (even though Microsoft was still using Unix for internal development -- the hypocrites) because their own products weren't ready for prime time. All they did was recompile AT&T's v7 source, and rewrite the < 5% of the kernel which was processor specific. Then, in typical MS fashion, they didn't sell to end users, they sold to vendors.
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