[Info-vax] XENIX VAX / PDP

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2019 10:14 AM, Supratim Sanyal <"supratim sanyal wrote:
> On 09/28/2019 09:35 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/28/2019 8:37 AM, Supratim Sanyal <"supratim sanyal wrote:
>>> Was there a XENIX release available from  Microsoft (or maybe SCO) 
>>> for VAX or PDP ?
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix claims it ran on PDP-11.
> 
> Yes and someone looked for it in 2010, but looks like drew a blank. A 
> tape etc. may have surfaced in the 9 years since, hence asking.
> 
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?19786-Wanted-PDP-or-VAX-Xenix

You are not just interested in knowing that it existed - you
want the product?

Well - it was not open source, so you will need to find
someone that can provide both media and sell you a license.

Based on what I can read on Wikipedia it seems most likely
that the Xenix rights moved:

Microsoft -> SCO/Santa Cruz -> Caldera/SCO -> UnXis/Xinous

But something else could have happened with Xenix as it
must have been too small to be public mentioned in various deals.

Arne