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@drahardja my first job where there was even a little bit of this computery nonsense was at a defence contractor. We had a bunch of machines for "office automation" stuff. #CAD, #WordPerfect, file sharing, email and stuff like that. They came from the supplier with #SCOUnix installed, and configured with #telnet up and running. The root password was, errm, the company name, and was never changed after delivery. Yes, they were on the public internet, such as it was in 1992.

@drahardja my first job where there was even a little bit of this computery nonsense was at a defence contractor. We had a bunch of machines for "office automation" stuff. #CAD, #WordPerfect, file sharing, email and stuff like that. They came from the supplier with #SCOUnix installed, and configured with #telnet up and running. The root password was, errm, the company name, and was never changed after delivery. Yes, they were on the public internet, such as it was in 1992.

huuuuh. with a few minor code changes you can make SCO Breaker generate SNAKs for SCO OSE/ODT 3. #retrocomputing #oldunix #scounix

huuuuh. with a few minor code changes you can make SCO Breaker generate SNAKs for SCO OSE/ODT 3. #retrocomputing #oldunix #scounix

Interesting #NetBSD/#FreeBSD difference:

They both have the hotkeys for switching KVTs that SCO Multiscreen had, but only FreeBSD remembers that Control+PrtScrn cycled through the screens on SCO Multiscreen.

#SCOUnix #SCOMultiscreen

SCO UNIX 🐧 emerged as the heir to Santa Cruz Operation's adaptation of Microsoft Xenix, 🚀 blending UNIX System V Release 3.2 with Xenix's device drivers and utilities. 🛠️ Released in 1989, SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.0 marked the commercial evolution from SCO Xenix.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #unix #museo #retrocomputing #videogiochi #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #elettronica #scounix #xenix

SCO UNIX 🐧 emerged as the heir to Santa Cruz Operation's adaptation of Microsoft Xenix, 🚀 blending UNIX System V Release 3.2 with Xenix's device drivers and utilities. 🛠️ Released in 1989, SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.0 marked the commercial evolution from SCO Xenix.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #unix #museo #retrocomputing #videogiochi #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #elettronica #scounix #xenix

@onthisday
Thank you Linus !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
#Linux #linustorvald #thanks

Imagine what we wouldn't have without that kernel. #scounix #xenix

My first Unix like os was the SGI one not even sure what it was called now.

@witewulf

That's a painful lesson.

The annoying thing is that for years it used to be the case that these things weren't multiple personality. If you wanted to *halt*, the command was haltsys(ADM).

Now, poweroff/halt/haltsys/reboot/&al. all have options where they can pretend to be each other. systemd is the main culprit for this. upstart and other toolsets didn't go quite as far as systemd's tools do. I did for compatibility, but I've never liked it.

#SCOUnix #shutdown

@witewulf

That's a painful lesson.

The annoying thing is that for years it used to be the case that these things weren't multiple personality. If you wanted to *halt*, the command was haltsys(ADM).

Now, poweroff/halt/haltsys/reboot/&al. all have options where they can pretend to be each other. systemd is the main culprit for this. upstart and other toolsets didn't go quite as far as systemd's tools do. I did for compatibility, but I've never liked it.

#SCOUnix #shutdown

Today's random tidbit:

SCO Unix had a divvy(1) command, that literally divvied-up disc volumes into root, swap, badblocks, and whatnot.

#SCOUnix #retrocomputing #Unix