[Gllug] My god that Mark Shuttleworth gets everywhere

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:02:26PM +0100, 'lesleyb' wrote:

> Way back in the mid 1980's - way before Jean Luc Picrad, Captian Janeway and pre TCP/IP even(!) - Microsoft had a product called Microsoft Xenix.

It was post TCP/IP.

> They sold it to SCO and became SCO Xenix before becoming SCO Unix.

SCO Unix had a large amout of SystemV.3 (or was it SystemV.4) in it. Quite a lot
of differences from Xenix.

> Not sure about the BSD code though although I can recall some trials and tribulations with uucp.

That is used somewhere in the MS TCP/IP stack. BSD was the first real implementation and it had
a good license (which essentially says ''use this but don't blame us'') - so it went into many an OS.

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