Xenix version, ahem, based on System ahem...?
Dave Hammond
daveh at marob.MASA.COM
Thu Jan 19 23:29:50 AEST 1989
In article <2790 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>There seems to be total chaos on the naming front in the Xenix world. We're
>running Xenix 3.5, which is an old Xenix based on SIII or V7 (depending on
>who you talk to). Meanwhile the SV-based Xenixes seem to have names like
>Xenix 2.2.1.
>
>What's the naming history of Xenix, and what are the different versions
>based on?
The Xenix's distributed by SCO (for generic *86's), have had version
numbers 2.*.* for the past 3 or 4 years. The current OS version
is 2.3.*, the current Development version is 2.2.*. SCO Xenix has
gone through a progressive upgrade from System III-based (with BSD extensions)
to System V-based (ditto) with each new version.
To the best of my knowledge, hardware vendor-supplied Xenix's (Altos,
Tandy, etc.) were originally ported from a Microsoft-supplied, V7-based
Xenix known as Xenix 3.*. However, I believe these manufacturers newer
386-based machines run a newer Xenix (possibly System V-based).
In all cases (regardless of porting base) Xenix runs a V7-style init/getty
login. Newer versions have optional inittab login handling.
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Dave Hammond
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