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Newer page: version 2 Last edited on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 8:30:47 am by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 1 Last edited on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 4:54:16 am by StuartYeates Revert
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-[Xenix] was a form of [UNIX] sold by [MicrosoftCorperation ] and later [SCO] in the period 1979-1985. 
+[Xenix] was a version of [UNIX] sold by [MicrosoftCorporation ], although they later sold all the rights to it to [SCO]. It was around in the period 1979-1985.  
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+Part of the sales agreement was that Microsoft would not compete against SCO in the Unix market, meaning Microsoft probably aren't allowed to distribute their own version of a unix-like [OS], even if they wanted to