The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/06/2009 03:26 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
> Agreed.  Back in the days when I was a *nix newb, I used Irix, SCO and =
AIX.
> I couldn't stand SCO, I personally preferred Irix.
>
>  =20
I started working with Microsoft Xenix back in about 1980, but mainly=20
worked with BSD/Vax and System V, Ultrix, and Tru64. We tried to get SCO =

running on a BCS IBM PS/2 back in the very early 90s, but JABR put in a=20
much more reliably DOS system. It seems that SCO (both Xenix and System=20
V) tended to get away from the existing Unix standard practices. Nearly=20
everyone I knew in the Unix community disliked SCO Unixes. remember that =

most of us learned Unix from the Lyon's book.

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