What Is Xenix?

I don't want to look stupid, but, but I was reading my MS-DOS 6.0 manula and it said something about UNIX and XENIX partitions, I know what UNIX is, but what is XENIX???

#39538

I never heard of it, but here is what a Google search says:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/xenix.htm

#39540

It was MSs version of Unix back in the DOS days. It actually was pretty good. MS is still payin' SCO for it though :lol:

#39554

wow.. thinking of UNIX and MS togethe boggles the mind.. :wacko:

#39557

I know you can get a copy of the AT&T UNIX from a place called "The keep" ill find a link! Was AT&T UNIX the original UNIX? Or was BSD?

@contrasutra: IF I GOT ANY OF THIS WRONG, DONT KILL ME. I BOW TO YOU, THE LINUX AND UNIX MASTER :bow:

#39603

BSD was Berkleys version of AT&T Unix.

Yeah, I believe AT&T Unix was the first version, though they didn't invent it, they bought it.

#39615

Originally posted by contrasutra@Jul 11 2003, 03:20 PM
BSD was Berkleys version of AT&T Unix.
Yeah, I believe AT&T Unix was the first version, though they didn't invent it, they bought it.

yeah? From who? Linux Trovaldo, or whatever?

#39617

HA, yeah, from linus torvalds. :lol: . He was the inventor of the LINUX kernel (came twenty years later).

Bell Labs made the first Unix.

#39629

Originally posted by contrasutra@Jul 11 2003, 04:05 PM
HA, yeah, from linus torvalds. . He was the inventor of the LINUX kernel (came twenty years later).

Bell Labs made the first Unix.

Bell as in the Bell Telecommunications company from Canada?

I have their DSL service...

#39631

Sounds like it could be the same. Though I didn't think Bell Telecommunications was from Canada.

hmmm.... who knows.

#39632

of course it is. Alexandre Graham Bell was Canadian, and the company is after him. They have the internet service, and also the Bell Phone service.

#39666

Alexandre Graham Bell was Canadian?!

You'd think Canada would milk that more. I mean, all they got is him and Pamela Anderson.

#39670

Originally posted by contrasutra@Jul 11 2003, 07:51 PM
Alexandre Graham Bell was Canadian?!

You'd think Canada would milk that more. I mean, all they got is him and Pamela Anderson.

hey now, don't foget Natasha Henstridge, Jim Carrey, Rachel Blanchard, Estella Warren and Elisha Cuthbert. :mellow:

Did I forget to mention Molson Beer?

#39672