System V derived systems had SMP capabilities prior to 1990. USL (Unix System Labs), eventually bought by Novell, had SMP support that was licensable in 1990. I ran a group of companies that ported that version to the 88K processor.
The claim that SCO makes about any System V derivative arguably being SCO property may not be all that crazy. In the early days of System V UNIX, the standard contracts to license the code included the provision that derivative works were owned by USL. We didn't agree to those terms and I doubt that IBM would have.
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System V derived systems had SMP capabilities prior to 1990. USL (Unix System Labs), eventually bought by Novell, had SMP support that was licensable in 1990. I ran a group of companies that ported that version to the 88K processor. The claim that SCO makes about any System V derivative arguably being SCO property may not be all that crazy. In the early days of System V UNIX, the standard contracts to license the code included the provision that derivative works were owned by USL. We didn't agree to those terms and I doubt that IBM would have.