Bela Lubkin wrote:
> Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> Brian K. White wrote:
>
>>> Ignorant of the fact that for15 or more years SCO was a really great product
>>> and a really great company and there is nothing anyone who used that system
>>> all during that time should feel ashamed about.
>> You *liked* Minix? E-e-w-w-w-w!
>
> ??!??
>
> Minix was the work of Andy Tanenbaum at the Vrije Universiteit of
> Amsterdam. Nothing to do with SCO.

Oh. Goodness, my mistake. I meant "XENIX".

> You may perhaps be thinking of Xenix? But even there you are wrong
> on two counts. One, SCO started shipping AT&T Unix source based
> distributions in 1989, well outside the given 15 year window. Two,
> Xenix _was_ a good system in its day. It too was solid and stolid --
> boring and behind the leading edge of its time, but very stable. Well
> suited for business use, then and for most of the intervening years.

It was a mother to interface with other systems in my direct experience, due
to being so far behind the leading edge. If the few things it happened to do
included what you needed, you were set.