[TUHS] What happened with XENIX? (was Re: Unix/World Magazines)

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:13 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, reed at reedmedia.net wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > What happened with XENIX?  I know it had some success (I used at least
> > one retired system with it), but nothing near the other offerings on the
> > PC family.
>
> I was forced to use Xenix for a contracting job (and hated it, as it was
> almost-but-not-quite-Unix, and the differences annoyed me).  Wouldn't
> Linux have arrived at around that time?
>

These mags are from 84 and 85. Linux wasn't really viable until 92 or so.

Warner
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