dfh@mcnc.UUCP (06/14/83)
The following blurb is from some Radio Shack propaganda on the TRS-80 Model 16: "Unlike 'UNIX-like' systems, TRS-XENIX actually 'is' the UNIX operating system." A question for you folks at Microsoft: Are you calling a rose by another name? What is meant my "... actually 'is' the UNIX ..."? Is TRS-XENIX a binary UNIX license with some Berkely enhancements? Is the Model 16 implementation of XENIX different from other XENIX implementations? Ignorant, but not afraid to ask, David Hinnant N.C. Educational Computing Service (919) 549-0671 ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!dfh
guy@rlgvax.UUCP (06/14/83)
XENIX is what Microsoft calls its licensed versions of UNIX; there may be some
Berkeley enhancements in it, and there are definitely Microsoft-developed
enhancements (record locking, etc.).
A rumor had it that anyone who offered UNIX under a sub-license had to give
it another name; is this strictly true or can you call it "the UNIX operating
system" (after all, "UNIX" is an adjective, not a noun. Sure. Just like
"Kleenex." It may be the law, but is it reality?). I have seen several ads
using the word "UNIX" unadorned by anything other than the familiar footnote.
Guy Harris
RLG Corporation
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