21 Oct
2023
21 Oct
'23
9:11 a.m.
Date & event of 1980 Xenix release.
<https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-April/023688.html>
Xenix was a version of AT&T UNIX, ported and packaged by Microsoft.
It was first offered for sale to the public in the August 25, 1980 issue of
Computerworld.
Source:
<http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html>
On 21 Oct 2023, at 17:27, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
I've done a bit of searching and found this link:
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsofts-xenix which
tells me that Microsoft (really their SCO) licensed 7th Edition Unix
in 1978 and brought out a product 2 years later. That seems
plausible.
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