The origins of SCO (was: SCO declares war ...)
bscott at ntisys.com
bscott at ntisys.com
Thu May 15 14:22:10 EDT 2003
On Thu, 15 May 2003, at 1:38pm, jason at sigio.com wrote:
> BTW, wasn't SCO UNIX originally Xenix, Microsoft's UNIX?
There isn't a "SCO UNIX", AFAIK. There is UnixWare and OpenServer. One
is based on the old Xenix code (I forget which). Xenix is/was one of the
most brain-damaged Unixes I've ever seen. I'd honestly rather use
MS-Windows. The other is the AT&T System V UNIX code. It is, I believe, a
direct linear descendant of the original Unics [SIC]. It's been bought,
sold, and given away so many times I forget exactly who owned it when.
Novell eventually got ahold of it. They sold it to either SCO or Caldera (I
again forget which), before they became one.
SCO is/was also involved in the development of "Merge", the DOS-on-Unix
software that now powers Win4Lin. I know they still sell it. I don't know
if they still control any of it. I hope not; I like Win4Lin.
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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