The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[Jerry Feldman]

On 05/07/2009 05:59 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On May 7, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> SCO was not the only Unix software vendor. Microsoft actually =20
>> developed Xenix before selling it to SCO. Certainly, most were =20
>> hardware companies, but there were a few other Unix vendors the used  =

>> PC hardware. I recall Venix in the 1980s, but there were some more, =20
>> and a couple of Unix-like, such as Minix and Coherent, and QNX.
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> Point.  But by the time period, 1990 or so, they were all heading out  =

> the door and were gone by 1994.  Exceptions are Minix, which was never =
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> commercial, and QNX, which found a niche in embedded systems.
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Venix was still releasing its version up through 1994. Both Linux and=20
FreeBSD were available in 1994.

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