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XENIX

(operating system)

A commercial version of Unix for microprocessor-based computers, released by Microsoft in 1980. In 1992, SCO became Microsoft's co-development partner and the alternate source for the product.

XENIX

An 8-bit version of Unix from Microsoft that was available for the IBM PC. It was later licensed to The Santa Cruz Operation for resale. See SCO XENIX.

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Eventually, knowing that they could not compete with Unix's developer at AT&T, they decided to abandon Xenix altogether and focus on Windows NT instead.

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Video games are one of his main sources of inspiration: The weirdly hypnotic sequences of Xenix, 2013, offer a loose taxonomy of the weaponry you'd find in first-person shooters by Activision or Valve; Vatican Vibes, 2011, a music video for Fatima Al Qadiri's eponymous track, is modeled on a video-game trailer; and A *, commissioned by the Swiss Institute in New York in 2014, is a high-definition study of the twee, synthetic lushness of such smartphone apps as Candy Crush Saga and Bejeiveled.

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Microsoft licensed it (and called it Xenix, rather than licensing the name UNIX as well) to be installed on Intel-based machines.

Conceiving open systems

SCO OpenServer 6 runs existing applications, dating back to applications that were designed for SCO Xenix. SCO also continues many other SCO OpenServer-style capabilities from security levels, look-and-feel, and other tools.

SCO UNVEILS MAJOR UPGRADE WITH SCO OPENSERVER 6

The company's OpenServer variant of Unix is a radically modernized version of Xenix, which was developed by SCO and, believe it or not, Microsoft, which used to be a big Xenix user back in the old days.

SCO Gives UnixWare an OpenServer Runtime

Unable to sell the software due to a DoJ injunction, AT&T instead licensed Unix Version 7 (and later Unix System III and V) to other organizations including the University of California at Berkeley (which developed its version as BSD under a more liberal license) and Microsoft (Xenix), while AT&T continued the development of the original Unix code (System III, System V).

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1980 - Xenix released, later to become SCO OpenServer

The peculiar case of SCO

This team also developed secure operating systems known as Trusted Mach and XENIX for the Department of Defense, adding to their long track record of leading-edge security technology R&D.

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Both the Xenix and the Film Podium theatres run movies on a thematic basis.

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SCO Unix variation, SCO/HP UnixWare, Microsoft's Xenix, SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc.) Unix, NeXTStep and on and on.

A sampling of tactical workstations

The principal competing operating system for MS DOS is UNIX and various UNIX look-alikes (such as XENIX under the Microsoft label and IBM's AIX).

Microcomputer software

Windows 95 probably sold more copies in one week than MacOs, OS/2, Xenix, et al.