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From: bc@cyb-eng.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: XENIX 3.0
Message-ID: <560@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-May-85 23:52:46 EDT
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Microsoft has been working on Xenix for so many years now, porting it among
various 68000 systems with various MMUs, and then the Altos 8600 Xenix, which,
I believe, marked the first 80x86 Unix implementation that was commercially
available, I find it very difficult to believe that Xenix is a trademark of
anyone else!  At NCC'82, I wore a Microsoft/Xenix button that I found.  I am
all but certain that Santa Cruz owns a sublicense for Xenix from Microsoft.
An engineer at the NCC'82 booth told me that they really didn't want to support
Xenix on any machine that has no memory PROTECTION, let alone mapping.  It
was at least a year after that that I first heard of Santa Cruz.

Forget it -- it's Microsoft's and probably always was.

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