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it was actually the most widely used real Unix at one (very dark) point.
by mishac 11y ago
it was actually the most widely used real Unix at one (very dark) point.
- justin66 11y agoInteresting thought. I have no problem believing it was running on the largest number of CPUs. I wonder if it had the largest number of users.
- criddell 11y agohttps://books.google.com/books?id=Dz8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA92661&ots=w8lkIroiE2&dq=%22xenix%22&pg=PA92661#v=onepage&q=%22xenix%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA92661&o... From that article: "according to AT&T, roughly half of the 500,000 Unix licenses are held by Xenix developers"
- justin66 11y agoAs I alluded, it's a question of what you're measuring. CPUs, developers, and users could all vary between versions. I really am amazed by that figure, though. Wow. And I had forgotten that xenix ran on some bigger machines, not just pcs.