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Subject: Xenix is not "Unix-inspired."  It is Unix.
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Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 10:15:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 18 10:15:00 1983
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From:  Roger L. Long 

WRONG!  

The company that I work for looked at Microsoft when considering who
to port UNIX to our new 68000-based computer.  Then we looked elsewhere.
First of all, we were not at all impressed by their attitude (you are
an OEM aren't you... oh, you are?  you can commit to $2,000,000 in
sales the first year, can't you... you still want more information? oh,
I'll have to have someone call you...)

Once we did get in touch with someone who knew something, a process that
took a couple of weeks worth of phone calls, we found out that Xenix
may be based on Bell Unix, but it was no longer pure Bell.  It seems
that Microsoft got V7, and made a number of enhancements.  This is the
basis by which they claim how much more reliable, etc, their Xenix is
over Unix.  Then System III came out, and as the gentleman I spoke with
(a project manager) put it, System III had many of the same enhancements
that we'd already made to Xenix, and we liked our code better, so we
stuck with it.  This is probably the same thing they will do with
System V and all the rest.

So it might be Unix to you, but it isn't "real" Unix to me.

	-roger