Matthew Nuzum wrote: > Wabi was created by SCO unix in Santa Cruz, CA. Ahhh, I didn't know they were behind it.
> They used to be the primary commercial Unix on x86 > hardware vendor. Oh yeah, very SCO familar. I can't believe a vendor was still selling a product in 1998 with the "year 2000 leap year / day of week" problem. That's SCO! > That was back in the days when MS acutally worked with > competitors such as Novel and SCO to provide a workable > solution for everyone. Microsoft helped setup SCO, and held a significant share for a long time. SCO also paid Microsoft for a copy of MS-DOS in SCO until the mid-90s. > Caldera bought them mid last year. They got the whole > kit 'n' kaboodle, I guess. IMHO, Tarantella is the only > tangible item of substance gained from the deal. Yeah, seems so. I'm still trying to figure out Caldera's strategy. You'd figure they would have bought Novell by now, but it seems they getting _neither_ technology _nor_ brand name out of the purchases! > Intangible is the name recongition and installed base. > They're the first Linux vendor to provide a real Unix > (not *nix or 'Unix like', but real Unix with vi, csh et > all) "Real UNIX"? Is there such a thing? Yeah, I know about UNIX(R) and all, but I'm sorry, SCO was always "the Microsoft of UNIX" (and literally, as above! ;-). IMHO, no company has done more for UNIX than Sun. Regardless of what you may think of their "half-baked" OSS endeavors, they really created a _lot_ of _key_ UNIX technologies early on. I could say the same thing about Adobe, even though their recent litigation moves scare the dickens out of everyone (some aren't their fault, but others clearly are). Many of their technologies are the ones we rely on. > I'm "certified" in wabi, but I've never actually used it. > :-) Was required from a previous employer, and they got > out of Unix within days of me taking the tests. I think > I've still got all the manuals somewhere. It still amazes me how much companies will pay to train people only to get nothing out of it. > As far as I can tell, it works just the same as OS/2 > Warp v.3. Yep. Ran OS/2 for Windows myself. Loved it. > It's a "protected" environement, and if the > Windows program or OE crashed, the computer kept on > running. Not a complete emulated computer such as > VMware or similar. Actually, I bet it is more "akin" to Win4Lin than VWMare, right? I.e., VMWare can host a number of OSes, but both Win4Lin and Wabi only do "specific" ones -- Windows 4.x and Windows 3.x, respectively. Again, anyone know anything about the license of this? -- Bryan -- Bryan J. Smith, Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
