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- From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
- Subject: Re: Questions and comments on Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.213631.12160@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 21:36:31 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.
- References: <l7rsi9INNs7s@almaak.usc.edu> <1992Aug08.012303.24569@microsoft.com> <ernest.713473475@milton>
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- In article <ernest.713473475@milton> ernest@milton.u.washington.edu (Theodore Deffenbaugh) writes:
- >I thought Xenix's OEM was Santa Cruz and MS was a VAR. What is
- >MS's input? One or two percent? It sorta sounds like an MS
- >employee wants to take credit for something they didn't write, but
- >I know that MS would never want to give that impression. (So I'd
- >thought we'd clear it up now.)
-
- SCO is (I think entirely) responsible for Xenix these days, but they
- licensed it from MS in the first place. I seem to recall that Microsoft
- Xenix was running on Altos machines before there was an IBM-PC or MS-DOS
- and way before SCO came into being. Another random data point, MS owns
- 20% of SCO.
-
- -Blake
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