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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sometime around 1993 while working for
the US Deparment of Energy's Savannah River Operations Office, I
attended a seminar held at a uni in Kansas City (perhaps UMKC; I
don't remember) about X.400 messaging. It was held in a
interoperability lab where they were trying to cobble together
collections of various X.400 apps as well as platforms and network
stacks. I remember that they had several x86 PCs that could
dual-boot between Windows 3.1 and something that I think was
called Interactive Unix. It was this experience plus my prior
experience with Banyan VINES (a network OS that was based on
AT&T System V that ran behind the scenes and made Novell
NetWare look like it was produced by Fisher-Price) was what got me
on the idea of putting serious DEC-VMS-level OSses on x86 hardware
and by 1995 I began investigating Linux and some shrinkwapped
curiosity from Microsoft called Windows NT that I had seen
demonstrated at a trade show but no one else seemed to know
anything about.<br>
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On 3/3/16 11:31 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
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actually had one of our customers (a chain of 20+ hotels)
running 286 machines with an early (1.x) SCO Xenix. Those
were my least favorite calls to deal with because that early
version of Xenix didn’t have many of the tools UNIX of the
same era. I never worked on it but there was apparently
a MS Xenix at one point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You
didn’t need Google back then because you actually got
manuals with most products. SCO’s UNIX manuals were fairly
well done including the indexes. We also used Informix and
while it had very detailed manuals the indexes in them
weren’t very good at all. (Ironic that a DBMS manual had
poor “indexes”.) To learn how to create an “outer join” in
Informix I had to essentially skim the entire manual to
learn that was what it was called – I’d previously simply
done it by putting checkmarks on the screen in an earlier
DOS install of Paradox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Plante<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 03, 2016 11:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Do not fight the Nazgul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We
used to take 386s and load SCO Xenix on them, with an 8
port serial card with Link dumb terminals attached. And
our customers would pound away on the app we wrote with
Progress database/4GL all day and it kept up pretty well.
It's hard to remember how we ever got any of that stuff to
work without being able to Google up answers on the
Internet--oh yeah, those multi-hour calls with hardware
tech support. Good times!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">"Jeff
Lightner" <</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">JLightner@dsservices.com</span></a><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
<b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a></span></a><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, March 3, 2016 9:32:04 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Do not fight the Nazgul<br>
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Me too - I liked Caldera because it had licensed Wabi
from Sun so I could run my company's required Windows
based tools under my Linux workstation.<br>
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I made my living on SCO Unix for a while before that and
really liked it. They took what as good about SVR4 and
augmented their original SVR3.2 stuff with it without
taking a lot of the crap I didn't like about SVR4 in
AT&T/NCR Unix SVR4. For a long time SCO was the
UNIX of choice for x86 systems. One benefit to it
was they did a lot of work with various hardware vendors
to insure SCO would run on their systems unlike many
other variants that were made by the hardware vendors
and required their hardware.<br>
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