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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
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In article <1993Aug29.192545.6570@ksmith.com> keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes:
[ ... MS getting UNIX functionality on Xenix ... ]
>Actually they never quite got this to work correctly, so a couple of
>Hippie Computer guru's in Santa Cruz, CA got together and bought into
>Xenix with exclusive distribution rights, and worked all the bugs out of
>the Microsoft code.  Can you say SCO?

(1)	Doug has never struck me as a hippie -- but then again, some of
	the people he hires fit that bill.  8-).

(2)	The Tandy 6000 is a 68000 based Xenix box; Altos also went the Xenix
	route with a number of their boxes, so SCO isn't alone.
	
(3)	I believe the first Xenix ran on Sun 3/60's at Microsoft -- I used
	to work for a comm software company, and someone at Microsoft called
	and asked if we'd run on this -- then said "Oh, I guess not; that's
	an internal product".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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