[rescue] Interactive Unix?

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:46:05PM -0600, Randy Bowie wrote:
> I think Sun bought Interactive Unix which then became Solaris for Intel.

Actually, it was Interactive UNIX/386.  I had an IU/386 kit once that had a
coupon in it basically begging peopel to upgrade to Solaris X86, which was
the replacement product.

Bill

> 
> I know Unixware was purchased from Novell by SCO.  Novell had repackages USL
> UNIX which they bought from Bell Labs.  Hence the battle between BSD and
> System V UNIX ended in a draw.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Weiss [mailto:ajwdsp at cloud9.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 1:21 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Interactive Unix?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> 
> > 	I have a Pentium pro system that was donated to me recently. I
> > decided to fire it up and see what it is and got some interesting
> surprises.
> > First off it's not running NT (I thought that was the choice dejour of
> > Pentium pros) it is running something called interactive UNIX. Now I may
> > have been seeing things but it seemed to indicate that it had three
> fathers
> > for this (copyright holders) I forget the first one but I also saw
> Microsoft
> > and sunsoft listed. 1. I thought Microsoft didn't do UNIX 2. I thought sun
> > hated Microsoft. am I making a bad assumption here that sunsoft is sun
> > microsystems?
> 
> Microsoft did UNIX for a long time... it was called Xenix.  I have an old
> MS brochure selling Xenix and certain MS DOS apps for Xenix plus that
> special mouse card they had with Xenix compatibility built in.  I even
> used Xenix 3.1a on an old 8086 Altos with 4 9600 baud serial terminals in
> a UNIX in chemistry course I took at the University of MD... it was an
> awesome course led by this rather kooky old professor... ls took 30-40
> seconds ... damn those things were slow... But it made me want to rescue
> my first old machine just to run that.  Then of course I believe SCO
> bought Xenix and turned it into Interactive UNIX and then UNIXware...
> which was then bought by Caldera... and SCO also had OpenServer products
> as well.
> 
> Andrew
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