Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late...
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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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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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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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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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developed the first complete crash-recovery product for Santa Cruz Operation’s Xenix systems, originally called Jet RestorEase. Unitrends started as a standalone...
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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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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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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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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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vendors including University of California, Berkeley (BSD), Microsoft (Xenix), Sun Microsystems (SunOS/Solaris), HP/HPE (HP-UX), and IBM (AIX). In the...
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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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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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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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(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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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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Microsoft Xenix (version 3), a Unix-like command-line operating system for the Lisa 2, and Microsoft's Multiplan 2.1 spreadsheet for Xenix. Other Lisa Xenix third...
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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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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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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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processor. The first Word version, Word 1.0, was released in October 1983 for Xenix and MS-DOS; it was followed by four very similar versions that were not...
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solution before 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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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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systems. Because of this heritage, OS/2 shares similarities with Unix, Xenix, and Windows NT. Up to $990 million per year was spent developing OS/2 and...
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PSE52 SerenityOS Stratus OpenVOS SkyOS Syllable ULTRIX VSTa VMware ESXi Xenix Zephyr Cygwin provides a largely POSIX-compliant development and run-time...
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ISBN 9780470083970. Topham, Douglas W. (2012). A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX. Springer New York. p. 78. ISBN 9781461232469. Holmay, Patrick (1998). "ASCII...
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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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SINIX (section Xenix-based SINIX)
libraries and header files. The original SINIX was a modified version of Xenix and ran on Intel 80186 processors. For some years Siemens used the NSC-32x32...
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Btrfs, and others native to other operating systems like JFS, XFS, Minix, Xenix, Irix, Solaris, System V, Windows and MS-DOS. Though development had not...
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