[rescue] Interactive Unix?

[Andrew Weiss]

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