Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!verifone!veritoo!aloha1!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Which UNIX? Message-ID: <1990Sep28.154649.6589@pegasus.com> Date: 28 Sep 90 15:46:49 GMT References: <5ou3P1w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <4100@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Lines: 14 >>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. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com