Upgrading Xenix -- Is there any hope?

[Fred Rump from home]

In article <10775 at s.ms.uky.edu>, chaney at ms.uky.edu (Dan Chaney) writes:
< 
< Hello all.
< 
<    I recently stumbled across a set of IBM Personal Computer Xenix.  The
< manuals (all 7) say First Edition (December 1984).  I decided to throw it
< on a 12 Mhz 286 clone and, with some help from a guru, it works...as well
< as it can, I guess.  
< 
<   My question is : Are there 'upgrade' kits that would bring this version
< out of the stone ages?  Do I get a prize for finding a relic maybe? Also,

Well you do have an antique. We found our IBM Xenixes to be so limiting after
we sold them to customers that we gratiously took them back and installed SCO
instead. When IBM then came out with 2.0 we thought we could save our
investment and spent almost as much again for the update sets. (6 of them)

It was not to be. Since our users talk to one another over e-mail and news, we
could not give the IBM restricted version to anybody WE knew. So they quietly
dissappeared to a foreign country where they believe IBM is next to Godliness
and it must be good.

Anyway I got 100 bucks a set for our cost of over 700 per set. That was the
last time I'll ever buy software form a hardware vendor whose main object is
to sell: hardware.

To answer your question: We were an IBM VAD then and tried to return the 2.0
version to them for something. No luck. They didn't want it back either. I
don't think you can buy and upgrade and probably would be better off throwing
the stuff in the trash and picking up a current copy of UNIX/Xenix from
anybody else.
Fred
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