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Wow, thanks. It's been 24 or 25 years since I used Xenix (dammit) and the funny part is, when I googled a couple of Unix family trees just now, it didn't even appear on some of them. But you're obviously right.

I think the big thing that would keep MSFT from rolling their own is fear of antitrust law, in the US and Europe. Less of a concern for them when it comes to Linux on phones or embedded, I believe.



it was actually the most widely used real Unix at one (very dark) point.


Interesting thought. I have no problem believing it was running on the largest number of CPUs. I wonder if it had the largest number of users.


https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA92661&o...

From that article:

"according to AT&T, roughly half of the 500,000 Unix licenses are held by Xenix developers"


As I alluded, it's a question of what you're measuring. CPUs, developers, and users could all vary between versions.

I really am amazed by that figure, though. Wow. And I had forgotten that xenix ran on some bigger machines, not just pcs.




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