[ale] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Whoa.

[jc.lightner at comcast.net]

In 1991 I started working for a company that had installed UNIX at many
sites.  Early on that was AT&T UNIX on 3B2 (Motorola chips) AT&T servers.
They later moved to AT&T UNIX on AT&T 6386 (Intel 386) systems.  Prior to my
arrival there they'd installed several 286 based systems running SCO XENX
because the client pushed back on the expense of the 386 systems.  

After AT&T bought NCR they let NCR run the UNIX stuff so on newer installs
we ran NCR (System V) UNIX on NCR (Intel 486) systems.   However, we moved
from NCR UNIX to SCO UNIX and the latter was my favorite OS of the ones we
used through the 90s.    After I left that job I went to a bigger RISC
systems (HP and Sun).  It really broke my heart when I saw this guy decide
suing people was a better business model than updating software.    I'm not
sure it was the same guy but SCO bought DR DOS early on when their new CEO
came from a company that was trying to sue MS over MS DOS so bought the
rights to DR DOS so he could continue that suit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of DJPfulio--- via Ale
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 7:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Cc: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Subject: Re: [ale] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Whoa.

On 11/18/24 12:23, Allen Beddingfield via Ale wrote:
> SCO was still relevant in the 90s, but circling the drain/dying in the
early 2000s.

SCO and "SCO Group" were 2 very different entities.

Wikipedia says SCO Group was founded in 2002 from Caldera.

Where I was working, in 1999, we were retiring the few remaining SCO systems
there to avoid support issues.

BASIC was my first language.  Later, I was on a system with PL/1 and they
seemed to be very, very, similar, at least to me.

I think all the people/companies trying to destroy Linux were indirectly
paid by MSFT to do it. No easy proof, but you don't need to read any tea
leaves either.  There are plenty of examples of similar things.
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