Xenix is a discontinued Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation. The first version was...
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portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64 and 128, TI-99/4A (on four 6K GROMs and a single 8K ROM),...
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vendors including University of California, Berkeley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX), and IBM (AIX). The early...
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Computer's A/UX operating system was initially based on this release. SCO XENIX also used SVR2 as its basis. The first release of HP-UX was also an SVR2...
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operating system (OS) business in 1980 with its own version of Unix called Xenix, but it was MS-DOS that solidified the company's dominance. IBM awarded...
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first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms...
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Microsoft Xenix (version 3), a Unix-like command-line operating system for the Lisa 2, and Microsoft's Multiplan 2.1 spreadsheet for Xenix. Other Lisa Xenix apps...
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system. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) sublicensed Microsoft's Xenix and wanted to retain the Xenix name, but AT&T said "If they want to call it Unix, they've...
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system, Xenix, was fully multi-user. The company planned, over time, to improve MS-DOS so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or...
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selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare...
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improvements to Xenix and porting Xenix to other platforms. In doing so, Microsoft gave HCR and Logica the rights to do Xenix ports and license Xenix binaries...
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(System 7) MINIX 1.5 PenPoint OS RISC OS 3 SUNMOS Trusted Xenix – rewritten & security enhanced Xenix evaluated at TCSEC B2-class 1992 386BSD 0.1 Amiga Unix...
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ubiquitous CAD program worldwide. The first UNIX version was Release 10 for Xenix in October 1989, while the first version for Windows was Release 12, released...
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access unrelated user interfaces. Virtual consoles date back at least to Xenix and Concurrent CP/M in the 1980s. In the Linux console and other platforms...
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been inherited from previous products such as MS-Net for MS-DOS, Xenix-NET for MS-Xenix, and the afore-mentioned 3+Share. A version of LAN Manager for Unix-based...
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Microsoft Corporation for compiling programs for running on its MS-DOS and Xenix operating systems and, in later versions, on OS/2 (like many other Microsoft...
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starting with multi-user derivatives of CP/M, and later including Unix and Xenix-based machines. In its 1982 initial public offering on NASDAQ, the company...
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oriented systems: Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, *BSD, AIX, Xenix, etc.), QNX 4+ Others: BeOS, Amiga, RISC OS, and others ASCII LF 0A 10 \n...
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"Vaporware" was coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 to describe the company's Xenix operating system and appeared in print at least as early as the May 1983...
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ISBN 9780470083970. Topham, Douglas W. (2012). A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX. Springer New York. p. 78. ISBN 9781461232469. Holmay, Patrick (1998). "ASCII...
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Unix multiuser systems. Microsoft planned to make Xenix MS-DOS's multiuser successor; by 1983 a Xenix-based Altos 586 with 512 KB RAM and 10 MB hard drive...
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software Xbox 360 system software Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software Xenix Nokia X platform Microsoft Linux distributions Azure Sphere SONiC Windows...
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versions of) HP-UX, IRIX, IS/3 and PC/IX, PC-UX, PNX, SINIX, Venix and Xenix. Dolotta, T. A.; Olsson, S. B.; Petruccelli, A. G., eds. (June 1980). UNIX...
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SINIX (section Xenix-based SINIX)
libraries and header files. The original SINIX was a modified version of Xenix and ran on Intel 80186 processors. For some years Siemens used the NSC-32x32...
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the floppy drive. The Model 16 can run either TRSDOS-16 or TRS-Xenix, a variant of Xenix, Microsoft's version of UNIX. TRSDOS-16 is a TRSDOS II-4.1 application...
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system initially ran on Xenix. The only employees using Microsoft Mail worked on the software itself, and used it as a client for Xenix mail servers. When...
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Microsoft was not able to license the "UNIX" name itself, it was called Xenix. Microsoft would distribute the product via Larry Michels and his son Doug...
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1982 and ran the multi-user/multi-tasking Xenix operating system, Microsoft's version of UNIX (called TRS-XENIX). The Model 16 has two microprocessors:...
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SCO Forum (redirect from The SCO XENIX 386 Developer Conference)
The first conference took place in 1987; it was referred to as the SCO XENIX 386 Developer Conference. SCO was looking for a place to hold an event that...
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OpenVOS SkyOS (discontinued) Syllable (discontinued) ULTRIX VSTa VMware ESXi Xenix Zephyr Cygwin provides a largely POSIX-compliant development and run-time...
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