XENIX - Revision history

Jnc: /* Archaeology */ Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia)

2025-07-01T01:03:46Z

‎Archaeology: Update Bell Labs URLs (blast Nokia)

Jnc: /* History */ Remove duplicate entries, add titles

2024-08-07T21:46:45Z

‎History: Remove duplicate entries, add titles

ForOldHack: /* External links */ added list of Xenix bench marks.

2024-08-07T21:37:43Z

‎External links: added list of Xenix bench marks.

ForOldHack: /* History */ Added two links for comparison of market

2024-08-06T18:07:36Z

‎History: Added two links for comparison of market

ForOldHack: /* History */ added future release info...

2024-08-01T23:01:25Z

‎History: added future release info...

ForOldHack: /* Archaeology */

2024-07-31T18:47:47Z

‎Archaeology

ForOldHack: /* Archaeology */ added recent article

2024-07-31T18:47:20Z

‎Archaeology: added recent article

ForOldHack: /* Repositories */ added another XT Xenix emulator

2024-07-31T18:45:00Z

‎Repositories: added another XT Xenix emulator

Jnc: /* Archaeology */ +UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating Environment

2024-07-24T01:45:27Z

‎Archaeology: +UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating Environment

Jnc: Corral links to the bottom

2024-07-24T01:35:04Z

Corral links to the bottom

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 ** [https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/11/2014253 Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Damage Mapping (Part 3)]
 ** [https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/13/086250 Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4)] - Includes some extraordinary efforts to get some utilities to run
-* [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/xenix.gif XENIX ad from Dennis Ritchie's home page at Bell Labs]
+* [https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/xenix.gif XENIX ad from Dennis Ritchie's home page at Bell Labs]
 * [https://www.linux-magazine.com/index.php/Online/Features/Remembering-XENIX Remembering XENIX]
 * [https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2015-09-01-the-most-obsolete-infrastructure-money-could-buy/ The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy - my worst job ever] - XENIX 286 problem from hell

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 * [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-06/page/n249 The UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating Environment] - Byte Magazine Article on Xenix, BYTE June 1980, pg 249
 <!-- *[https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2009/02/10/apple-lisa-xenix/Apple Lisa (c1983) Xenix 3.0] -->
 * [https://www.krsaborio.net/unix/xenix.htm Some Xenix information - Intel Ad Aug 1984]
-* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt An extensive comparison of Xenix in the open market unix wars]
+* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt A buyer's guide to UNIX versions for PC-clone hardware] - an extensive comparison of Xenix in the open market unix wars]
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141202093953/http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Techdoc/Bench/dhryst.txt Dhrystone 1.1 Benchmark Summary] - computer bench marks featuring Xenix systems, which correspond to actual Xenix releases
 ===Emulators===

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 * [https://www.krsaborio.net/unix/xenix.htm Some Xenix information - Intel Ad Aug 1984]
 * [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt An extensive comparison of Xenix in the open market unix wars]
 ===Emulators===

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 <!-- *[https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2009/02/10/apple-lisa-xenix/Apple Lisa (c1983) Xenix 3.0] -->
-** [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt The future of Xenix became Unix, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and the very ugly.]
+* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/clone-unix-guide.txt The future of Xenix became Unix, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and the very ugly.]
 ===Emulators===

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 * [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-06/page/n249 The UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating Environment] - Byte Magazine Article on Xenix, BYTE June 1980, pg 249
 <!-- *[https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2009/02/10/apple-lisa-xenix/Apple Lisa (c1983) Xenix 3.0] -->
 ===Emulators===

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 ** [http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xenix-2-2-3-mystery-continued/ The XENIX 2.2.3 Mystery, Continued]
 ** [http://www.os2museum.com/wp/oldest-surviving-386-pc-os/ Oldest Surviving 386 PC OS?]
-** [https://www.os2museum.com/wp/missing-xenix-disks/ Xenix 2.1.0 Oldest Xenix ]
+** [https://www.os2museum.com/wp/missing-xenix-disks/ Xenix 2.1.0 Oldest PC Xenix ]
 * [https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?query=Xenix Searching For: Xenix] - Xenix at SoylentNews
 ** [https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/03/03/1620222 Restoring Xenix 386 2.2.3c, Part 1]

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 * [https://archive.org/details/Xenix386Ports SCO Xenix and a set of ported software]
 * [https://github.com/pski/model2archive The Model 2 Archive - a huge git repository including XENIX for the TRS-80 Model 16B and Tandy 6000]
 ====Support Level Supplements for Xenix====

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 * [https://museo.freaknet.org/gallery/software/xenix/versions.txt A list of version numbers pulled from disks]
 * [http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html A bit of XENIX History] (from a MS Developer '86 ~ '89)
 * [https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix The History of XENIX: A Failed Future and a Long Life] The history of Xenix with the least amount of errors - mostly at the beginning.

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 *[[Apple Lisa]] [[Motorola MC68000]] [c 1984] The emulator [[idle]] can run this.
 *[[TRS-80 Model II Family|TRS-80 Model 16B and Tandy 6000]] [[Motorola MC68000]] [c 1984]
 === Others ===
-*[[LSI-11]] - No versions of this exists online. There is a note that Xenix with Programmers console ran on a LSI-11/34. [https://comp.os.vms.narkive.com/Qoy6kBJU/xenix-vax-pdp# Xenix on PDP]
+* [[LSI-11]] - No versions of this exists online. There is a note (link below) that Xenix with Programmers console ran on a LSI-11/34.
-*[[PDP-11]] [https://comp.os.vms.narkive.com/Qoy6kBJU/xenix-vax-pdp]
+* [[PDP-11]] - link below
-*[[VAX-11/780]]
+* [[VAX-11/780]]
-*[[Zilog Z8001]] [c 1979] - I have only found sales literature that mentions this.*
+* [[Zilog Z8001]] [c 1979] - I have only found sales literature that mentions this.*
 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Note: This sounds like vaporware since neither the Onyx 1 nor the Commodore 900 ran Xenix
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 * [https://github.com/retrohun/blog/tree/master/dt/xenix286ondemand Tenon Xenix 286 2.3.2d on Linux w/ Qemu. ]
 * [http://48k.ca/trs80gp.html trs80gp - A multi-system TRS-80 emulator] - For instructions check out  [[Installing XENIX on a Tandy 6000]]
 ===Repositories===
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 * [https://archive.org/details/Xenix386Ports SCO Xenix and a set of ported software]
 * [https://github.com/pski/model2archive The Model 2 Archive - a huge git repository including XENIX for the TRS-80 Model 16B and Tandy 6000]
 ====Support Level Supplements for Xenix====
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 * [https://museo.freaknet.org/gallery/software/xenix/versions.txt A list of version numbers pulled from disks]
 * [http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html A bit of XENIX History] (from a MS Developer '86 ~ '89)
-* [https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix] The history of Xenix with the least amount of errors - mostly at the beginning.
+* [https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix The History of XENIX: A Failed Future and a Long Life] The history of Xenix with the least amount of errors - mostly at the beginning.
 * [http://www.os2museum.com/wp/category/xenix/ Category Archives: Xenix] - precursor to the next group
 ** [https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-xenix-386-2-2-3-mystery/ The XENIX 386 2.2.3 Mystery]