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I would not call Xenix a forgotten Operating System. I sent Steve Ballmer an email when he was still CEO of Microsoft asking if they were ever going to do a new
by ryao 10y ago
I would not call Xenix a forgotten Operating System. I sent Steve Ballmer an email when he was still CEO of Microsoft asking if they were ever going to do a new release of Xenix. He replied no.
- cstross 10y agoThat would be because Microsoft sold the rights to Xenix to SCO -- at that time about two hackers and their hot tub in downtown Santa Cruz -- in return for 30% of the shares in the (then private) company. That was in the mid-to-late 80s (before my time there).
- bogomipz 10y agoWhat's the "where are they now" on the two hackers in S.C with the hot tub?