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On 4/11/2011 9:55 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Actually (IIRC), Xenix was itself originally/initially
a <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Microsoft<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> product (and ran on 8086/80186 hardware),
and I "think" it might have even pre-dated MS-DOS itself.
Apparently they wanted to have "Unix" but escape the AT&T
trademark/license/royalty. I remember (partially) supporting
& subsequently replacing a Tandy 6000 and a number of Altos
systems (all running Xenix) with i386 systems, running SCO
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I installed Xenix on a few AT&T 8086 PC's. we had to swap out a
PAL chip as I recall..<br>
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Paul Cartwright</pre>
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