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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO stopping enhancements for Xenix?
Message-ID: <597@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 90 02:07:11 GMT
References: <5118@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <6734@cps3xx.UUCP> <1353@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1353@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes:

| > Yes, it sucks that SCO is moving in a direction of orphaning home
| > hackers, but that isn't where the money is for them.
| 
| 	If they beleive this, then they are pretty stupid.  You ever
| 	hear of products such as cpm and ms-dos?  

  I hope you aren't going to claim that they were a success based on
home use. CP/M was widely used in industry and business, because it was
that of ISIS (from Intel) and ISIS ran on Intel hardware, making the
total package about twice the price of a CP/M system.

  The home hacker is buying ESIX. There just isn't much else in the
price range. And thay are making money (assuming they are) in a number
of ways. I'm not at all sure how much they modify the basic AT&T
release, I suspect not much except for their system with the RISC CPU
stuffed in.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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