Re: [pups] Interesting PDP/Xenix History

I'm getting really confused with all these companies. If I understand correctly... AT&T/Western Electric sold UNIX rights to Microsoft. Microsoft had HCR develop XENIX from V7. SCO licensed XENIX from Microsoft. SCO then subsubsublicensed XENIX to various vendors. Please correct me. I must be wrong. (What happened to our MERT discussion anyway? :-) Long & winding PS.: I read this really cute book about Linux at my local library some time ago. It discussed UNIX, Linux, their relation, and the current state of affairs when it was written -- in 1994. The book started out with an etymology of XENIX, which would have been derived from Dutch "'k Zie niks," meaning "I don't see a thing" -- the first thing Dutch users uttered when XENIX booted. Last year, I talked to a fellow member of the HCC (Hobby Computer Club) UNIX gg (gebruikersgroep, user group) who remembered his worst experience with UNIX -- having to use XENIX. He was still shocked by its Microsoftian performance.