• Xenix is a discontinued Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation. The first version was...
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    Computer's A/UX operating system was initially based on this release. SCO XENIX also used SVR2 as its basis. The first release of HP-UX was also an SVR2...
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    portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64 and 128, TI-99/4A (on four 6K GROMs and a single 8K ROM),...
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    selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare...
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    improvements to Xenix and porting Xenix to other platforms. In doing so, Microsoft gave HCR and Logica the rights to do Xenix ports and license Xenix binaries...
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    Cruz Operation's variant of Microsoft Xenix, derived from UNIX System V Release 3.2 with an infusion of Xenix device drivers and utilities. SCO UNIX...
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    system, Xenix, was fully multi-user. The company planned, over time, to improve MS-DOS so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or...
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    vendors including University of California, Berkeley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX), and IBM (AIX). The early...
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  • been inherited from previous products such as MS-Net for MS-DOS, Xenix-NET for MS-Xenix, and the afore-mentioned 3+Share. A version of LAN Manager for Unix-based...
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    first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms...
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    have Unix-like names such as AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix, and XNU. These patterns do not literally match many system names, but are...
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  • (System 7) MINIX 1.5 PenPoint OS RISC OS 3 SUNMOS Trusted Xenix – rewritten & security enhanced Xenix evaluated at TCSEC B2-class 1992 386BSD 0.1 Amiga Unix...
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    access unrelated user interfaces. Virtual consoles date back at least to Xenix and Concurrent CP/M in the 1980s. In the Linux console and other platforms...
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  • 1982 and ran the multi-user/multi-tasking Xenix operating system, Microsoft's version of UNIX (called TRS-XENIX). The Model 16 has two microprocessors:...
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  • software Xbox 360 system software Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S system software Xenix Nokia X platform Microsoft Linux distributions Azure Sphere SONiC Windows...
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    operating system (OS) business in 1980 with its own version of Unix called Xenix, but it was MS-DOS that solidified the company's dominance. IBM awarded...
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    "Vaporware" was coined by a Microsoft engineer in 1982 to describe the company's Xenix operating system and appeared in print at least as early as the May 1983...
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  • III was $700. NEC's subsequent port of UNIX System V was called PC-UX/V. Xenix for AT etc. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved...
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  • processor. The first Word version, Word 1.0, was released in October 1983 for Xenix, MS-DOS, and IBM; it was followed by four very similar versions that were...
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    Unix multiuser systems. Microsoft planned to make Xenix MS-DOS's multiuser successor; by 1983 a Xenix-based Altos 586 with 512 KB RAM and 10 MB hard drive...
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    introduction of Xenix. The company planned to improve MS-DOS over time, so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which...
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  • Microsoft was not able to license the "UNIX" name itself, it was called Xenix. Microsoft would distribute the product via Larry Michels and his son Doug...
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    systems. Because of this heritage, OS/2 shares similarities with Unix, Xenix, and Windows NT. OS/2 sales were largely concentrated in networked computing...
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  • A configuration with 512 KB of RAM, an Intel 8086 processor, Microsoft Xenix, and 10 MB hard drive cost about US$8,000. 3Com offered this Altos 586 product...
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  • ubiquitous CAD program worldwide. The first UNIX version was Release 10 for Xenix in October 1989, while the first version for Windows was Release 12, released...
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    oriented systems: Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS, *BSD, AIX, Xenix, etc.), QNX 4+ Others: BeOS, Amiga, RISC OS, and others ASCII LF 0A 10 \n...
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  • and several pocket computer designs, as well as the Tandy version of the Xenix operating system. Tandy Corp. also produced a version running under MS-DOS...
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    operating systems that used the protected mode of the 286 were Microsoft Xenix (around 1984), Coherent, and Minix. These were less hindered by the limitations...
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  • BSD (including many of the features then unique to SunOS), System V, and Xenix. This would become System V Release 4 (SVR4). On September 4, 1991, Sun...
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    SINIX Solaris SUPER-UX Tru64 UNIX UNICOS Uniplus+ Unix/NS UXP/DS Venix XENIX Below are other certified Unix operating systems: macOS: Heavily based on...
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