[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Dave,
More people will correct me if I am wrong, but Xienx was orginaly a 
Microsoft product:
a google search pulled this:
In the late 1970's Microsoft licensed UNIX source code from AT&T which at 
the time was not licensing the name UNIX. Therefore Microsoft created the 
name Xenix. 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.

SCO introduced its first version of Xenix named SCO Xenix System V for the 
Intel 8086 and 8088 in 1983. Today SCO Xenix is one of the more commonly 
used and found versions of Xenix.

-Glen
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>H'mmnn...Xenix.....the TRS line used that particular OS at some
>point...
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>I still have my unused copy of SCO 286 Xenix in storage in the
>basement but have nothing to run it on....oh well :-(
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>Does anyone remember the Mark Williams package called
>Coherent...another Unix clone and the first one I learned Unix on
>after college.....
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>And didn't Wally-Mart offer Linux boxes in the States?
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>Cheers Dave
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>--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Glen VanDenBiggelaar"
><glenvdb at h...> wrote:
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> > John (and the rest)
> > Don't get me wrong. I know that CoCo/ XP platform will never work,
>XP is so
> > bloated that you could nevre shrink the kernal to fit it that
>small. Not
> > even NT (NT 4, which to this day is probaly one of MS most stable
>products
> > in my opinion). I am just stating that no mater where I go, Linux
>is being
> > stated as "The holy Grail" of the IT world, by the zelots out
>there (and I
> > am not saying anyone here is a Zelot). UNIX itself if not even
>being
> > debated- just Linux. I would love to see MS bring back Xenix-(buy
>back the
> > rights). My opinoin (and its just mine) is -I am not going forced
>into a
> > product that is taking the market by about 3-5% a year, and
>the "big"
> > computer manufactures (Dell, IBM, etc) have no confidence in the
>product on
> > the consumer level. I know you might say that this is because
>lisensing
> > parterships with Bill and the boys), but the average consumer is
>the one
> > still who does have the final say.
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> > BTW - I do know this will get me in a bit of trouble, but keep in
>mind, its
> > just an opinion, If Mac hadn't used A flavour of Linux of OS 10,
>it would
> > even be less popular, because the Mac people really had no choice
>except to
> > stay with OS9.
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> > >Coco/Linux, Coco/BSD, Coco/FreeDOS, Coco/ReactOS, etc. all could
>make
> > >sense. Coco/WinXP doesn't as far as I can tell, for reasons that
>myself,
> > >Merch, and Frank have already outlined.
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