Microsoft Unix

[lurch]

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]

Xenix was mockingly pronnounced "'k zie niks" in the Netherlands, meaning "I don't see a thing". Microsoft's slowness legacy predates Windows ;).