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I remember Xenix back when I was in high school. I had a copy lying around but there was so much dev activity on DOS then Windows that it was relegated to the pile of ignored OSs.

✅ Microsoft's Xenix - by John Paul Wohlscheid
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsofts-xenix?triedRedirect=true
#xenix #Microsoft

Turned out the patch might not be needed on my Xenix 1.00 disks. Tried stepping through install. Went as hoped (with a few glitches) until finally it asked to boot from the HDD. Then, oops. No /boot for me!

Well, I also stuffed up the time zone (I don't live in the US and messed up setting the "Other" timezone), so I get to blow away that massive 20 MB Type 2 HDD and try again with knowledge now earned and learned.

#vm #retrocomputing #xenix #linux

Playing around with Xenix. Managed to get 2.0 running in PCem, albeit now I need to do a bit of reading to learn how to configure it and use it.

I'd like to take a swing at Xenix 1.0, but looks like I need to patch Install and another disk before it will work in PCem. I have the patch, but it needs Python 2.x, so either I rewrite it for 3.x, or I revive my 10-years-dead 2.7.6 environment.

This one is part of my self-learning-how-to-Linux track.

#vm #retrocomputing #xenix #linux

Backport Wisdom

"The reason is that they don’t buy the IBM answer as the only answer. The saying in the US is “nobody ever got fired for picking IBM.” That’s not a saying in Europe."
~Doug Michels, January 1987

#tallship #Microtimes #SCO #Logica #IBM #XENIX

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MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation (1987) #UNIX #Xenix #SCO
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes-interview-with-doug-and

Repórter Retro 118

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Repórter Retro 118

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Repórter Retro 118

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Repórter Retro 118

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Repórter Retro 118

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It’s Xenix

While compiling Perl on the Cray I stumbled over the following lines...

Compiling Perl on UNICOS system

It's not Xenix...

Hmm... Looks kind of like an extended USG system, but we'll see...
Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.
It's not Xenix...
Nor is it Venix...
Use which C compiler? [cc]

Well Xe

https://www.behindtheconsole.com/2025/03/20/its-xenix/

#VintageComputing #BSD #CRAY #Linux #microsoft #SCO #VintageComputerLab #VintageComputing #Xenix #BTC

#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #UNIX #IBMPersonalComputer #Lisa2 #SantaCruzOperation #VintageAd #VintageTechAd #SCO #XENIX

Pra não dizer que não falei de Unix…

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/09/24/pra-nao-dizer-que-nao-falei-de-unix/

#MundoRetro #68000 #computador #DEC #Motorola #PDP11 #SistemaOperacional #UNIX #Xenix #Z8000 #zilog

I've seen a poll about operating systems lately and I think that people should learn one or two things before talking (writing).

Let me clarify you 1, 2 or 3 things:

- #Linux is not an operating system it's just a kernel. Maybe you mean GNU/Linux

- #Mac is not an operating system, it's a computer. Maybe you mean Mac OS or Mac OS X

- #Microsoft is not an operating system, it's a corporation. Maybe you mean #DOS, #Windows or even #Xenix

Ok folks, the class is over. See you next Monday 😎

BLAST!

This is a piece of software for every platform under the sun. The software is an alternative for Zmodem and Kermit for transferring files over a serial link.

Pictured here is the Xenix version I picked up at a thrift store yesterday.

#retrocomputing #xenix

#UNIX Systems Expo/84 as it was described in BYTE in January 1985: "(Microsoft's) #XENIX was running all over the place"

Great article about the history of #Xenix: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix

#RetroComputing #Microsoft #History #UNIX #SCO

Podcastempfehlung für Freunde des gepflegten Alteisens: Nur wenige wissen, dass Microsoft auch mal ein Unix im Lieferprogramm hatte und damit – zumindest in verkauften Stückzahlen – auch ziemlich erfolgreich war. Das alles passierte noch vor den Unix Wars. Die Unix-Variante hieß Xenix und war von AT&T lizenziert. Warum und wie es dazu kam, und was aus Xenix wurde, erzählt euch die aktuelle Episode 135 von Advent of Computing. Enjoy: https://fyyd.de/episode/12526958 #vintagecomputing #xenix #unix #podcast

@jbz
I actually had a copy of XENIX 286 at my old job ages ago.
Was a very nice system for what you got, the printed docs were very good. I wish I could have kept it, but I doubt it was Y2000 compliance.

#Xenix #Unix #Retrocomputing #OSDev

ᐅ A look into Xenix, Microsoft's long forgotten Unix Operating System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlhDi2gGmhE

#Xenix #Unix #Retrocomputing #OSDev

yeet
#artfight #dragon #xenix #adrelyr #artfightstardust

@mwl @sng Any higher than $60 USD ? Do I hear any other bids?

#BSD #Xenix

Why do I still have a dead tree version of this? Guess it's time to pulp it!

#Ottawa #Classiccomputers #Unix #Xenix

Babe wake up, we gotta watch the new SCO XENIX movie that dropped!!!!

#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #XENIX #SCO #UNIX

@DanielMReck I personally recommend asking your local dealer about #Xenix😉

it @xenix 's birthday

Art ©️ Me
Xenix ©️ TheXenix
#dragon #art #digitalart #green #xenix #adrelyr #birthdayGift

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

#Microsoft licensed #UNIX V7 from AT&T in 1978, and sold it under the name “XENIX” (AT&T wouldn't allow "Unix" to be used). Bill Gates' notepad held in the Museum of History and Industry (Seattle) shows the question on #XENIX for Steve Jobs. What was the question remains a mystery
Via @unix_byte

@redork oh yum. I'd heard of #Coherent and #Xenix, but never #Venix!

https://archive.org/details/venix-386

Package the Base | @bsdbcr @adventureloop

Listen now: bsdnow.tv/533

#FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of #XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping #firefox, releases: #FuguIta 7.4 , #LibreSSL 3.8.2, #OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0.
Via @bsdnow

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

Imagine what we workstations have without that kernel. #scounix #xenix

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

Is #ELKS (8086 linux) still a thing? Would the #book8088 be a good machine for it?

I suspect the #XTCF BIOS wants a DOS4 style partition table so i dunno if the old 8086 UNIXes (#coherent, #xenix, #minix) would cooperate.

Then there's the whole issue of installing such a thing on a machine that doesn't support floppy drives... 😝

Is #ELKS (8086 linux) still a thing? Would the #book8088 be a good machine for it?

I suspect the #XTCF BIOS wants a DOS4 style partition table so i dunno if the old 8086 UNIXes (#coherent, #xenix, #minix) would cooperate.

Then there's the whole issue of installing such a thing on a machine that doesn't support floppy drives... 😝

Is #ELKS (8086 linux) still a thing? Would the #book8088 be a good machine for it?

I suspect the #XTCF BIOS wants a DOS4 style partition table so i dunno if the old 8086 UNIXes (#coherent, #xenix, #minix) would cooperate.

Then there's the whole issue of installing such a thing on a machine that doesn't support floppy drives... 😝

Is #ELKS (8086 linux) still a thing? Would the #book8088 be a good machine for it?

I suspect the #XTCF BIOS wants a DOS4 style partition table so i dunno if the old 8086 UNIXes (#coherent, #xenix, #minix) would cooperate.

Then there's the whole issue of installing such a thing on a machine that doesn't support floppy drives... 😝

Is #ELKS (8086 linux) still a thing? Would the #book8088 be a good machine for it?

I suspect the #XTCF BIOS wants a DOS4 style partition table so i dunno if the old 8086 UNIXes (#coherent, #xenix, #minix) would cooperate.

Then there's the whole issue of installing such a thing on a machine that doesn't support floppy drives... 😝

NABU: Quem é? O que come? De onde vem?

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#MundoRetro #Canad #CPM #CPM86 #GouldSEL #Motorola #MSX #NABU #nuvem #QNX #rede #ROM #Signetics #TvACabo #UNIX #Xenix #z80 #zilog

@swagpussc (...continued)
Often forgotten by people is the period in between. The people who cloned Linux and the (GNU) "shell" around it often worked from samizdat doco about 1970s Unix.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, there were a whole bunch of commercial #Unix flavours: #Xenix, HP/UX, #AIX, #SunOS, #Ultrix, OSF/1, AT&T System 3, AT&T System 5, ...

#Illumos, which came from #Solaris, which came from SunOS, is actually still around.

https://illumos.org

#SVR3 #SVR5
(continued...)

@cstross @marjolica

Since you mention Xenix, here's a couple of interesting historical tidbits:

One of the ironies of history is that #MMDF, which SCO Xenix had instead of #Sendmail, would have been far more popular had it been around just a decade later.

It's also interesting that if one is writing stuff for a virtual terminal on FreeBSD, one still has traces of Xenix around. The keymap(5) file format is much the same as the #Xenix one.