8 Jan
2020
8 Jan
'20
6:40 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 07:48, Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen(a)firemail.de> wrote:
I do remember supporting a small Xenix userbase in the mid-90's in
southeast Ireland. Mostly in law offices, surprisingly. They were very
resilient, usually running on a Wang PC-02 with greenscreen terminals
(Wyse, I think). Although they worked fine for their intended purpose
(word processing etc.), the allure of Windows was their demise.
Hell, Linux didn't exist at all till
'91.
I think Xenix was more just a casualty of the Unix Wars. The victors there
were SunOS/Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. There were a bunch more walking
wounded that never really achieved much market share.
'In the mid-to-late
1980s, XENIX was the most common UNIX variant, measured according to the number of
machines on which it was installed.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix