A Microsoft OS MS has been remarkably silent about lately

[somewan]

No, not Win9x, and not MS-DOS - a not even OS/2.

Refresh your memory...

So, does anyone know more?

[gamehead200]

Its funny how Microsoft can't even spell the word "are'nt"...

ITS "AREN'T", BILL!!!

[os2fan2]

if i recall correctly, microsoft sold off xenix to someone else.

[somewan]

if i recall correctly, microsoft sold off xenix to someone else.

That's true. It was transferred to SCO (http://www.sco.com/[/ur])

at some point, and in some shape or form, but that's not the

end of the story. For example, the Run-time Library Reference

for version 8 of the MS C compiler, printed in 1993, still says:

Microsoft, MS, MS-DOS,

XENIX

, and QuickC are registered

trademarks and Windows, etc... are trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation in the USA and other countries.

I also seem to recall that SCO had to pay royalties to Microsoft

for a long time, and that there was a legal dispute about it.

Changes in the MS-DOS Unix-compatibility suggests a

distinct shift in company policy at some point between MS-DOS

3.0 and 4.0. For example, the 4.x command line utilities

stopped paying attention to the "switch-char" setting (the

primary purpose of which was/is to allow the use of

Unix-style '/'-separated paths that would otherwise conflict

with the use of '/' as a command-line option character).

[Dave-H]

Its funny how Microsoft can't even spell the word "are'nt"...

ITS "AREN'T", BILL!!!

IT'S "IT'S" gamehead!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist..................

[os2fan2]

Sad, really. Xenix was the last of the 8-bit Unixes.

W

[gamehead200]

Its funny how Microsoft can't even spell the word "are'nt"...

ITS "AREN'T", BILL!!!

IT'S "IT'S" gamehead!

Sorry, I just couldn't resist..................

Quiet... I missed the apostrophe...

[Andromeda43]

8 bit OS?

Heck, I'll take the "Commodore 64".

Best little 8 bit machine that ever came down the pike.

I still have mine, with my exclusive, custom Kernal.