29 Mar
2002
29 Mar
'02
10:36 p.m.
Thus spake Michael Davidson <MichaelDavidson(a)pacbell.net>:
I meant licensed. sorry.
Tandy, right?
this brings up memories of my first experiences in computing...
being +-6 years old and impressed by my cousin's 286/20 (we had a /12)
It was all very complicated ...
... much too complicated to describe accurately in a short piece of
email.
thanks for trying. it helped!
AT&T/Western Electric sold UNIX rights to Microsoft.
Not exactly. The only time that UNIX *rights* were really *sold* or
transferred
were with the various changes in ownership of the group which developed
UNIX. ie the USL -> Novell -> SCO -> Caldera series of transactions. SCO then
subsubsublicensed XENIX to various vendors.
Yes, although SCO's main business was in selling shrinkwrapped OS
products for standard Intel hardware - SCO did sublicense the code
to a few people - mainly large OEMs.