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lurch
01-30-2007, 05:52 PM
I just stumbled across some old history of Microsoft Xenix of which I was unaware.

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/xenix_microsoft_shortlived_love_affair_with_unix.s html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

danieldk
02-01-2007, 09:09 AM
Xenix was mockingly pronnounced "'k zie niks" in the Netherlands, meaning "I don't see a thing". Microsoft's slowness legacy predates Windows ;).