The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[Richard Pieri]

On May 7, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> SCO was not the only Unix software vendor. Microsoft actually  
> developed Xenix before selling it to SCO. Certainly, most were  
> hardware companies, but there were a few other Unix vendors the used  
> PC hardware. I recall Venix in the 1980s, but there were some more,  
> and a couple of Unix-like, such as Minix and Coherent, and QNX.

Point.  But by the time period, 1990 or so, they were all heading out  
the door and were gone by 1994.  Exceptions are Minix, which was never  
commercial, and QNX, which found a niche in embedded systems.

--Rich P.