Xenix
Discontinued Unix version published by Microsoft / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s. The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) later acquired exclusive rights to the software, and eventually replaced it with SCO UNIX (now known as Xinuos OpenServer).
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Developer | Microsoft, SCO, HCR, Logica |
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OS family | Unix (SysV) |
Working state | Historic |
Source model | Closed source |
Initial release | 1980; 44 years ago (1980) |
Latest release | System V Release 2.3.4 / 1991; 33 years ago (1991) |
Platforms | PC/XT, x86, PDP-11, Z8001, 68k |
Kernel type | Monolithic kernel |
Default user interface | Command-line interface |
License | Proprietary |
Succeeded by | SCO UNIX, OS/2 |
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In the mid-to-late 1980s, Xenix was the most common Unix variant, measured according to the number of machines on which it was installed.[1][2] Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said at Unix Expo in 1996 that, for a long time, Microsoft had the highest-volume AT&T Unix license.[3]