<OT>SCO

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 21:43:02 -0500
Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:

> Yeah, but didn't Interactive do the "ACTUAL" SYS V port for SCO and AT&T ?

Nopesiree. It was AT&T Bell Labs who did this. When Novell bought Unix from
AT&T, it was the guys at Bell labs (New Jersey, USA and Bracknell, UK) who
were sold as well, as they did the work. I guess some of those AT&T Bell
Labs guys still work for SCO doing UnixWare Kernel stuff.

What I think you are thinking of is that Interactive was bought by Sun
and provided the basis for Solaris on intel. This being after Interactive
was bought by Kodak to be used in point-of-sale image solutions.

Still, the binary compatability was quite good. For years I ran, on my AT&T
SVR4 Unix, an X server from Snitilly Graphics that was compiled for
Interactive Unix. Never a glitch. Worked for years.


-- 
+????????????????????????????+???????????????????????????????+
? Roger Oberholtzer          ?   E-mail: roger at opq.se        ?
? OPQ Systems AB             ?      WWW: http://www.opq.se/  ?
? Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43  ?    Phone: Int + 46 8   314223 ?
? 115 34 Stockholm           ?   Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 ?
? Sweden                     ?      Fax: Int + 46 8   302602 ?
+????????????????????????????+???????????????????????????????+