I remember Xenix back when I was in high school. I had a copy lying around but there was so much dev activity on DOS then Windows that it was relegated to the pile of ignored OSs.
✅ Microsoft's Xenix - by John Paul Wohlscheid
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsofts-xenix?triedRedirect=true
#xenix #Microsoft
Your best bet is the original publisher, that alas does not have the paper in its "refer" index and whose on-line request form is broken.
https://usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/proceedings1.html#before
Does anyone have a copy of “Porting Xenix to the Unmapped 8086” by Hare and Thomas? Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Conference 1984.
C’mon. I know one of you has to have a copy.
Turned out the patch might not be needed on my Xenix 1.00 disks. Tried stepping through install. Went as hoped (with a few glitches) until finally it asked to boot from the HDD. Then, oops. No /boot for me!
Well, I also stuffed up the time zone (I don't live in the US and messed up setting the "Other" timezone), so I get to blow away that massive 20 MB Type 2 HDD and try again with knowledge now earned and learned.
Playing around with Xenix. Managed to get 2.0 running in PCem, albeit now I need to do a bit of reading to learn how to configure it and use it.
I'd like to take a swing at Xenix 1.0, but looks like I need to patch Install and another disk before it will work in PCem. I have the patch, but it needs Python 2.x, so either I rewrite it for 3.x, or I revive my 10-years-dead 2.7.6 environment.
This one is part of my self-learning-how-to-Linux track.
Backport Wisdom
"The reason is that they don’t buy the IBM answer as the only answer. The saying in the US is “nobody ever got fired for picking IBM.” That’s not a saying in Europe."
~Doug Michels, January 1987
#tallship #Microtimes #SCO #Logica #IBM #XENIX
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It strikes me that #MSDOS started gaining #Unix features, most notably file descriptors, FD-related system calls, and directories/folders, beginning with version 2.
Version 1 was heavily influenced by CP/M, but then it took a hard left turn toward Unix in version 2.
But I guess I shouldn't be surprised. #Microsoft was selling an actual Unix at the time too, namely #Xenix.
#DOS never got Unix-style multitasking, though. Apparently MS expected people to buy Xenix or Windows if they needed that.
MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation (1987) #UNIX #Xenix #SCO
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes-interview-with-doug-and
Repórter Retro 118
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/09/24/reporter-retro-118/
#ReprterRetro #6502 #AdrianBlack #AMXProject #Argentina #BancoDeDados #BASIC #CdigoDeBarras #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #CPM #DanielCampos #DartmouthCollege #DiskII #disquete #DisqueteDe312 #GrupoDeUsurios #IBM #IntelignciaArtificial #ISA #JAIIO #Mainframes #MakerTube #microsoft #modem #MSDOS #MSX #MSXJa #MSXRio #MSXVGA #Novell #Pick #QuickBASIC #RetroRio #SWAC #TByteCreator #Theremin #VWestlife #Windows95 #Xenix
It’s Xenix
While compiling Perl on the Cray I stumbled over the following lines...
Compiling Perl on UNICOS system
It's not Xenix...
Hmm... Looks kind of like an extended USG system, but we'll see...
Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice.
It's not Xenix...
Nor is it Venix...
Use which C compiler? [cc]
Well Xe
https://www.behindtheconsole.com/2025/03/20/its-xenix/
#VintageComputing #BSD #CRAY #Linux #microsoft #SCO #VintageComputerLab #VintageComputing #Xenix #BTC
#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #UNIX #IBMPersonalComputer #Lisa2 #SantaCruzOperation #VintageAd #VintageTechAd #SCO #XENIX
Price: 50 £ :: Manuals, many still shrink wrapped, and installation discs.
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Please DM @robert@irrelevant.me.uk
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@krutonium @alexadeswift I'm shure @fuchsiii thinks that porting #Wine to #XENIX is something @ncommander wakes up at night from as a #nightmare...
@krutonium last time I checked it ended up as #SINIX in the Hands of #Siemens-#Nixdorf and may be now in the Hands of #Diebold-Nixdorf or #Fujitsu (which bought Siemens's Computer Division)...
@krutonium I guesd the reason why they don't #FLOSS #XENIX is the same why they only released #MSDOS 4.0 and not 6.22:
🌘 終於在Xsight中 | OS/2博物館
➤ SCO XENIX上尋找GUI環境Xsight
✤ https://www.os2museum.com/wp/finally-in-xsight/
轉載日期: 2024年8月15日，Michal Necasek談論如何在SCO XENIX上運行GUI環境Xsight，揭開尋找Xsight之旅，最終發現在ODT 1.0磁片中存在Xsight的祕密。
+ 「原來Xsight就在眼前，尋找之苦值得！」
+ 「技術考究，發現歷史軌跡，翻轉過往的技術冷門。」
#舊電腦運算 #SCO #XENIX
Pra não dizer que não falei de Unix…
https://retropolis.com.br/2024/09/24/pra-nao-dizer-que-nao-falei-de-unix/
#MundoRetro #68000 #computador #DEC #Motorola #PDP11 #SistemaOperacional #UNIX #Xenix #Z8000 #zilog
I've seen a poll about operating systems lately and I think that people should learn one or two things before talking (writing).
Let me clarify you 1, 2 or 3 things:
- #Linux is not an operating system it's just a kernel. Maybe you mean GNU/Linux
- #Mac is not an operating system, it's a computer. Maybe you mean Mac OS or Mac OS X
- #Microsoft is not an operating system, it's a corporation. Maybe you mean #DOS, #Windows or even #Xenix
Ok folks, the class is over. See you next Monday 😎
BLAST!
This is a piece of software for every platform under the sun. The software is an alternative for Zmodem and Kermit for transferring files over a serial link.
Pictured here is the Xenix version I picked up at a thrift store yesterday.
