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I worked at a MicroAge during the heyday of Xenix, selling any system we could get our hands on. We even had some weird System/36?/38? variant because IBM was
by technofiend 10y ago
I worked at a MicroAge during the heyday of Xenix, selling any system we could get our hands on. We even had some weird System/36?/38? variant because IBM was still trying to keep the PC from killing midrange sales.
Hard to believe but we had three different UNIX offerings: Microsoft Xenix, AT & T 3B1/PC 7300 and what sold by far the best: Altos systems. We sold the hell out of 4, 6 and 8 user Altos systems because everything was connected to cheap dumb terminals. The Xenix systems could not come close at the time for speed.
But then Novell commoditized cheap networking and file sharing on the PC and that was that. The PC had far more software selection and despite the price difference offered Lotus 123 which took the industry by storm.