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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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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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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),...
- 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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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...
- 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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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...
- "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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selling three Unix
operating system variants for
Intel x86 processors:
Xenix, SCO UNIX (later
known as SCO
OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare...
