28 Mar
2002
28 Mar
'02
2:28 a.m.
On Thursday, 28 March 2002 at 0:24:11 +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote:
I'm getting really confused with all these
companies. If I understand
correctly...
AT&T/Western Electric sold UNIX rights to Microsoft.
Microsoft had HCR develop XENIX from V7.
SCO licensed XENIX from Microsoft.
SCO then subsubsublicensed XENIX to various vendors.
Please correct me. I must be wrong.
(What happened to our MERT discussion anyway? :-)
Long & winding PS.: I read this really cute book about Linux at my local
library some time ago. It discussed UNIX, Linux, their relation, and the
current state of affairs when it was written -- in 1994. The book
started out with an etymology of XENIX, which would have been derived
from Dutch "'k Zie niks," meaning "I don't see a thing" --
the first
thing Dutch users uttered when XENIX booted.
Note that in English, the X is usually pronounced like an S ("zie
niks"). Siemens made a pun on this with their Sinix product; "Sinix"
in German is pronounced the same way as "XENIX" in English :-)
Last year, I talked to a fellow member of the HCC
(Hobby Computer
Club) UNIX gg (gebruikersgroep, user group) who remembered his worst
experience with UNIX -- having to use XENIX. He was still shocked
by its Microsoftian performance.
I've used XENIX/386 in the early 90s. The development tools were
terrible, but I found somebody who had ported the GNU tools to XENIX
(doing it yourself would rob you of your sanity). After that, it
wasn't too bad, but it was a pretty limited system. I ended up
building a cross-build environment on UnixWare.
Greg
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