Which UNIX?

Richard Foulk richard at pegasus.com
Sat Sep 29 01:46:49 AEST 1990


>>There's a difference between SCO Unix and SCO Xenix.  Xenix is an
>>awful almost-Unix clone from Microsoft.
>
>A clone with some tissue from the original, given that the original
>Xenix started with V7 UNIX from AT&T, and had other AT&T code from S3
>and S5 put into later releases - it's *NOT* a from-scratch look-alike.

Perhaps not, but from the gratuitous differences and misfeatures, it
sure did a good job of looking like a bastard-clone the few times I
tried porting something to it.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com



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