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Did you know that at one point in time Microsoft was the seller of the most UNIX licenses in the world? And did you know that Microsoft successfully developed and distributed a UNIX OS called Xenix, which was licensed from AT&T?

What kind of world could we live in today ... 🤔

The whole thing is no joke. And those who are old enough, will still have vivid memories of Xenix.

Back in 1978, Microsoft, wisely anticipating, that PCs would soon dominate the market, bought a UNIX v7 license from AT&T. The plan was to equip all upcoming 16-bit micros with Xenix.

In the years that followed, Xenix certainly came to fame by being ported to a wide variety of CPUs and platforms and sub-licensed to other manufacturers. But as history has it, everything was to turn out differently.

Alistair Ross better known as @AlsGeekLab has collected all the interesting details about Xenix in a recent video. If you don't know Al yet - his YT channel belongs in every well-maintained I-have-subscribed-list™. ☑️