From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Sep 21 16:20:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE2437B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5E1; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:23:27 -0700 Message-ID: <39CA972F.BFFAB715@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:18:07 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: johnmxl@radiks.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just Imagine.. References: <39CA949C.B1627A8A@radiks.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Amdor III wrote: > > I thought Microsoft already tried UNIX...wasn't SCO Unix originally part > of the Microsoft empire? Originally, Microsoft had Xenix, and SCO had another Unix, but SCO ended up with Xenix as well, though I don't think it was through Microsoft directly. However, I do recall a deal where Microsoft sold something to SCO with the agreement that Microsoft would not enter the Unix market. So Microsoft can't sell a Unix. I believe that it was at this time that they began working on NT, to be a Unix compatible alternative. It was SCO's acquiring of Xenix that locked up the small-end Unix market until the popularization of Linux. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message