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From: tim@conejo.UUCP (James T. Kehres)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: XENIX 3.0
Message-ID: <204@conejo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-May-85 14:21:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: conejo.204
Posted: Sun May 26 14:21:46 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 27-May-85 07:31:49 EDT
References: <2343@seismo.UUCP> <10846@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2408@seismo.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@conejo.UUCP (James T. Kehres)
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Organization: Conejo Office Systems, San Jose, Calif.
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Summary: 

In article <2408@seismo.UUCP> stev@seismo.UUCP (Stev Knowles) writes:
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>ok folks, another mind boggling question. who owns the trademark XENIX?
>
>microsoft markets a product they call XENIX, but it is for the ibm pc/at.
>a company called, i believe, the santa cruise operation markets a product
>they call XENIX also. it is this second unix that i refered to in the article
>i posted, although i did not realize it when i posted it.
>
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>stev@seismo  (you couldn't find me? look harder, i think i'm worth it,
>	      even if no one else does. and most dont)

XENIX is the name for the UNIX ported by Microsoft.  This includes the product
for the PC/AT as well as many other machines (several 68000 and 286 machines
at least).  SCO markets and supports XENIX.  Microsoft, to the best of my
knowledge, does not do any end user sales.


Tim Kehres						Conejo Office Systems
							San Jose,  California
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