[TUHS] Dave Cutler recollection about Xenix

[steve jenkin]

Date & event of 1980 Xenix release.

<https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2021-April/023688.html>

	Xenix was a version of AT&T UNIX, ported and packaged by Microsoft.
	It was first offered for sale to the public in the August 25, 1980 issue of Computerworld.

Source:
	<http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html>

> On 21 Oct 2023, at 17:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
> 
> I've done a bit of searching and found this link:
> https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsofts-xenix which
> tells me that Microsoft (really their SCO) licensed 7th Edition Unix
> in 1978 and brought out a product 2 years later.  That seems
> plausible.


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