I don't know why almost nobody remembers this OS. It shipped preloaded on the original IBM PC-AT. It was a good version of unix for the power of the PC back then in '85. It was completely compatible with PC-DOS and could live on the same computer while running at the same time (try that with Linux and Windows). Xenix was based on AT&T's System III and back in that day and age it actually supported 3 megs of ram and a 20 meg hard drive! I'm not defending Xenix as the best *nix version but it was the very first and so far worked the best on the pc (as in being completely integrated). Don't knock Gates just because of what he became...remember he tried to make Unix for the desktop but just gave up...why? Apple. Yes. Apple. They are the ones who ruined it for us all...they almost ran Gates out of business so he ported windows (originally an alternate to the X server) to the PC and made it the standard. Thats why Windows has always run as an application rather than an OS...because it never was an OS it was an application...only now is it becoming a real OS with Win2000 and (shudder) XP. So don't blame Gates he at least tried to do it first...but the urge to make money and be popular overcame him.
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I don't know why almost nobody remembers this OS. It shipped preloaded on the original IBM PC-AT. It was a good version of unix for the power of the PC back then in '85. It was completely compatible with PC-DOS and could live on the same computer while running at the same time (try that with Linux and Windows). Xenix was based on AT&T's System III and back in that day and age it actually supported 3 megs of ram and a 20 meg hard drive! I'm not defending Xenix as the best *nix version but it was the very first and so far worked the best on the pc (as in being completely integrated). Don't knock Gates just because of what he became...remember he tried to make Unix for the desktop but just gave up...why? Apple. Yes. Apple. They are the ones who ruined it for us all...they almost ran Gates out of business so he ported windows (originally an alternate to the X server) to the PC and made it the standard. Thats why Windows has always run as an application rather than an OS...because it never was an OS it was an application...only now is it becoming a real OS with Win2000 and (shudder) XP. So don't blame Gates he at least tried to do it first...but the urge to make money and be popular overcame him.