Did you know that Microsoft made their own version of UNIX, all the way back as far as 1979, before MS-DOS and Windows was even a thing!? As usual, no story of computing folklore would be complete without a bit of controversy, and the story of Xenix is not short of a fair few crazy moments! Controversy aside, I bet you'll learn a good bit about a bit of history today, that could have changed the way we see and use computers a whole lot, if Xenix had won the day. Get ready for a compelling story!
Learn about: Legal battles! Product mergers! Acquisitions! UNIX on the original PC and Apple Lisa! Steve Ballmer on Cocaine!
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Credits for video:
A look into Xenix, Microsoft's long forgotten Unix Operating System [COMPAQ PORTABLE PLUS - Pt III] - @THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlhDi2gGmhE
SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 - @digitalarchaeologist5102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocDRBnUxBEQ
SCO vs. IBM - SCO's lawsuit against IBM - @techperspectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbIkueFe8E4
Lawyer Career Video - @Lawyer Career Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2PVtgWLp8
BSD UNIX - NETWORK ENCYCLOPEDIA @NetworkEncyclopedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sne3m0qLEMk
SUN Sparcstation 10 (Year 1993) - SUN OS 4.1.4 & NeXTSTEP 3.3.4 - @devnull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUZwxGNG-w
A Tour of Windows 3.1 - Software Showcase - @ComputerClan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz3YuWfaKvI
How Bill Gates CRUSHED IBM with One GENIUS Move (The Story of Microsoft Documentary) - @thinkonomics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5khH5gllg
Linus Torvalds Introduces Linux 1.0 - @techperspectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaDpjlFpbfo
Microsoft Windows 95 - Start Multitasking (Commercial Remake) - @holograms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugq_d5MWenk
History of Microsoft -- 1975 - @jonpaulmoen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLaMbaVT22E
TRS-80 Model 16 - TRSDOS and XENIX Demo - @TJBChris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_KbvAc8SKM
Compaq 386s/20 386sx - XENIX with GUI & Network (Year 1991) - @devnull.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atvTV9xU3Cw
The Computer Chronicles - UNIX (1985) - @ComputerChroniclesYT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdoGPav3fc
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs) - @VortexTech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVQTPbD6UY
Bell Labs Film on Shaping the Computer Age from 1984 - AT&T Archives - @ATTTechChannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi1jF3pYjEw
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System - @ATTTechChannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0
Microsoft Interface Manager:
https://virtuallyfun.com/2010/07/19/microsoft-interface-manager/
XENIX Now! / SCO XENIX - Computer Ads From the Past:
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/sco-xenix
Beta Archive SCO Unix 3.2:
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29695
SCO System V 2.x - Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_scosystemVunTimeEnvironment2.2AApr87_15286240
Apple Lisa and SCO XENIX:
http://blog.boreas.ro/2007/12/xenix-blast-from-past-looking-back-at.html
https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/02/10/apple-lisa-xenix/
Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:44 Origins of Xenix
6:15 What did Xenix run on & what did it do?
8:08 How much did Xenix cost?
9:57 Shortcomings of Xenix
12:19 Imagine what could have been
15:07 Selling to SCO
20:04 Legal Issues & Bankruptcy
21:05 How Xenix lives on!