Microsoft Unix?

It sounds funny now, but as soon as Microsoft has in fact been the most widely installed Unix base. Her version of Unix was called Xenix, and was distributed in 80 in many suppliers. What happened to him since then? Well, Microsoft sold it to SCO, and proceeded to the development of OS / 2 to IBM, then Windows NT.
Wikipedia has some interesting tidbits of information for Xenix here. As it looks back in 80 to? Here is a screenshot of wikipedia.
System In version 4, a standard for Unix today was formed by merging SunOS, BSD, Xenix, and System V.
Of course, Microsoft Xenix legacy is still around. But look where Unix history? All flavours of Unix is closed source, or are they? Thanks to open-source Solaris, we can now look at all the real Unix code and find some gems copyright, which silently read stories Unix development.
For For example, to see how the development of Unix went from the University of California at Berkeley for AT & T and Microsoft Sun Microsystems to take a look at this code.
Such resin is the beauty of Unix. Decades older than any other operating system today, and still hold their own in today& 39;s world. Not only that, it leads to other frequently beaten in their own game and still come at other times of such innovations, which are the envy of teenagers. Even spawning dozens of clones that are cool in their own way. Ubuntu, who?
Me? I am happy with my good ol " Unix. Solaris that is. For me.
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