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Xenix Dead

Xenix
KindOperating system
Appeared1980
StatusDead
CreatorMicrosoft / SCO
FamilyUnix
Platform8086 and up
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Microsoft's Unix — for years the most-installed Unix in the world; sold to SCO, which spent its inheritance on lawsuits.

Descended from Research Unix
Succeeded by SCO OpenServer
Created by Microsoft
Descendants SCO OpenServer
Predecessors Research Unix

Microsoft's Unix — Xenix (1980) — was its best-selling product before MS-DOS, a licensed Unix System III/7 for microcomputers. Microsoft ported it to the 68000 and x86 before selling it to SCO in 1987.\n\nSCO Xenix and then OpenServer ran small-business Unix for two decades; the lineage ended in Caldera/SCO's collapse and litigation.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix