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In 1979, Microsoft licensed UNIX directly from AT&T, but couldn't license the UNIX name, so it called its UNIX variant Microsoft XENIX.

XENIX was originally developed on a DEC Virtual Address Extension (VAX) running the Virtual Memory System (VMS) and a PDP-11 running UNIX V7, albeit now using Microsoft's own in-house minicomputers, and then converted into assembly language specific to the new 16-bit Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 microprocessors. This put XENIX at the high end of the microcomputer market, which was still dominated by 8-bit machines, but well below the lowest end of the minicomputer market.

In 1979, brothers Doug and Larry Michels founded the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) as a UNIX porting and consulting company using venture capital from Microsoft, which handed over all further development of Microsoft XENIX to SCO.

And MS haven't made any l?[iu]n[ui]x software that I can recall

Well, I guess you haven't been around long enough... remember Microsoft Xenix? Microsoft was actually one of the largest UNIX vendors in the early eighties.

This is different from Linux, where SCO is claiming that copyrighted code was used without permission. So the paper trail consists not of a bunch of copyright notices, but of alleged similarity between the two code bases.

Incidentally, lot of that third party code was contributed by Microsoft, during their brief flirtation with Unix. Somehow I doubt if they'd cooperate in any attempt to make Unix open-source!

You're a bad user? Whoops, not the right one, but it's kind of close hmmm? ;^)

Here's the link, for you cut and paste couch potatoes.

People, slashdot loves and respects the <A> tag. Please use it.

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Um, it would seem a little silly that if AT&T didn't license Microsoft patent rights when they licensed Unix to them to create Xenix. And equally as silly if the same didn't happen from Microsoft to SCO when SCO was founded.

Nice article, which showed up as the first item on Google

The Computer Source Magazine has had many well written "getting started with Linux" articles over the last few of years. It is a free print publication for the Puget Sound area, but it has all of it's articles archived online. Go to the archive and search for linux on the page.

The Computer Source Magazine has had many well written "getting started with Linux" articles over the last few of years. It is a free print publication for the Puget Sound area, but it has all of it's articles archived online. Go to the archive and search for linux on the page.

Here is ATI's reponse ("ATI Responds to Radeon 8500 Questions" on SourceMagazine.com).

Here is ATI's reponse ("ATI Responds to Radeon 8500 Questions" on SourceMagazine.com).

HardOCP

Source Mag
Cpu Review
Acid Hardware

First off, I read a good portion of the reviews that I found linked from Blue's News:
Source Magazine
Target PC
Hardware Unlimited
Tech Report
Gamer's Depot

What's the upshot? That even with each processor's "ideal" system (DDR on the Athlon, RAMBUS on the P4)-- well, the P4 kicks ass at Quake 3: Team Arena. I mean, it's really really good at Quake 3. So good, in fact, that-- well, you won't be running anything else, I hope?

Because in almost every other app, the cheaper Athlon 1.2 equals or outperforms the P4. That even includes apps such as POVRay that did some early optimizations for the P4's extended instructions. I recommend reading the Tech Report's overview if you're interested in that; they have more details on exactly which instructions were used, and the current state of Intel's compilers for the chip.

Keep in mind, of course, that the compilers are still a bit beta-ish-- sometimes they actually make the programs run slower. But they never appeared to actually make it faster than an Athlon 1.2.

Debate what you will about future extensibility, and so on-- but unless you're going to be playing a whole lot of Quake, if you're looking for a new system you should grab one of those cheap Athlon CPU/Motherboard combos selling for $300 at Fry's.