somewan Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 No, not Win9x, and not MS-DOS - a not even OS/2.Refresh your memory...So, does anyone know more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Its funny how Microsoft can't even spell the word "are'nt"...ITS "AREN'T", BILL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
os2fan2 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 if i recall correctly, microsoft sold off xenix to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewan Posted February 13, 2006 Author Share Posted February 13, 2006 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 theend of the story. For example, the Run-time Library Referencefor version 8 of the MS C compiler, printed in 1993, still says:Microsoft, MS, MS-DOS, XENIX, and QuickC are registeredtrademarks and Windows, etc... are trademarks of MicrosoftCorporation in the USA and other countries.I also seem to recall that SCO had to pay royalties to Microsoftfor a long time, and that there was a legal dispute about it.Changes in the MS-DOS Unix-compatibility suggests adistinct shift in company policy at some point between MS-DOS3.0 and 4.0. For example, the 4.x command line utilitiesstopped paying attention to the "switch-char" setting (theprimary purpose of which was/is to allow the use ofUnix-style '/'-separated paths that would otherwise conflictwith the use of '/' as a command-line option character). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 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.................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
os2fan2 Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Sad, really. Xenix was the last of the 8-bit Unixes.W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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