<OT>SCO

[Ben Duncan]

Ahhh .. but ISC (Interactive) was the first to Market Commercial UNIX to the world.
And if so, they would have had the rights to Intel based code as well, no?

What I have found out today as a matter of fact, that AIX is based
on ISC's version (see:


  http://www.rootvg.net/column_risc.htm

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 


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