[ale] Do not fight the Nazgul

[Scott Plante]

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! 

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From: "Jeff Lightner" <JLightner at dsservices.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 9:32:04 AM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Do not fight the Nazgul 

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. 

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. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tom Freeman 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 9:02 AM 
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts 
Subject: Re: [ale] Do not fight the Nazgul 


SCO Caldera Linux was my first _successful_ distribution for me. A friend managed to get a printer going in a way that I not only could follow, I could reproduce when I balled things up. Admittedly, this crayon isn't the sharpest in the box... 

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Boris Borisov wrote: 

> 
> So bad they got blinded by big money promises. I think SCO Caldera 
> Linux was the first full distro for me. 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2016 3:49 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Didn't I see a SCO logo on The Walking Dead last Sunday? 
> 
> Just sayin' 
> 
> On Mar 2, 2016 2:24 PM, "Charles Shapiro" 
> <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote: 
> The last nail in SCO's coffin has been hammered 
> down. 
> http://fossforce.com/2016/02/sco-is-undeniably-and-reliably-dead/ 
> 
> It was sure fun while it lasted. 
> 
> -- CHS 
> 
> 
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