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From: "Heredity Choice" <stork@QNET.COM>
To: <scanner@jurai.net>, "Joe Warner" <jswarner@uswest.net>
Cc: "Alfred Perlstein" <bright@wintelcom.net>,
	"Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Microsoft Source (fwd)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:17:52 -0800
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Xenix was Microsoft's 16-bit UNIX developed to run on the IBM PC family. It
was a real UNIX, multiuser and multitasking and a different ballgame from
DOS.  It was the first UNIX-derived OS to run on the PC platform and paved
the way for FreeBSD. Microsoft sold Xenix to SCO.

The advent of the 32-bit I386 made Xenix obsolescent.

Paul Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of scanner@jurai.net
> Sent: Sunday, 05 November, 2000 17:28 PM
> To: Joe Warner
> Cc: Alfred Perlstein; Kris Kennaway; chat@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd)
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Joe Warner wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I've already seen this one.  Dru Lavigne posted
> > this one a while back.  It's pretty funny!  8^)
> >
> > Maybe it was just a rumor.  Microsoft doesn't really
> > have any plans to create a Linux/UNIX variant...
> > ....or do they? <shudder>  8^P
>
>
> 	They did once already. It was called XENIX.
> If they still have it, they could dust it off, slap in a linux kernel and
> call it MS linux.
>
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