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

[Adam Thornton]

Hell, Linux didn't exist at all till '91.

I think Xenix was more just a casualty of the Unix Wars.  The victors there
were SunOS/Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.  There were a bunch more walking
wounded that never really achieved much market share.

By the time SCO filed suit in 2003, not only were the Unix Wars fairly long
over (SCO had lost), but commercial Unixes had largely been supplanted by
Linux (and BSD enthusiasts had three free options, and OS X was a thing if
you wanted a commercial BSD, but Apple never managed to make much in the
way of inroads into the server market).  Linux's ascendency happened around
the turn of the millennium, as I recall, although I was using AIX at my job
as late as 2010-2011, and I presume the Big Several still exist in some
form or other.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:28 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:13 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, reed at reedmedia.net wrote:
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>> [...]
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>> > 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.
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>> 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?
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> These mags are from 84 and 85. Linux wasn't really viable until 92 or so.
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> Warner
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