The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[Richard Pieri]

On May 8, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> 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  commercial, and QNX, which found a niche in embedded  
>> systems.
>>
> Venix was still releasing its version up through 1994. Both Linux  
> and FreeBSD were available in 1994.

Linux and FreeBSD are, like Minix, not commercial products (although  
there are commercial products built on them).

The last Venix release was in 1994.  Never mind that Venix was pretty  
much designed for Digital hardware (DEC PRO, Rainbow, etc).  So while  
VenturCom was never a hardware vendor, Venix was still effectively a  
hardware lock-in.

--Rich P.