Re: SCO (again) and Gartner

From: Bruce Stephens (bruce+usenet_at_cenderis.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/18/03 

Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:32:33 +0100

"Alan Hughes" <postmaster@localhost.localdomain> writes:

[...]

> Could be honest stupidity on the part of SCO's legal beagles. AFAIK Linus
> used Xenix on the PC that he initially developed Linux on, and in fact for a
> long while you needed a Xenix platform to bootstrap Linux on. Also Linux
> initially only supported the Xenix file system (at lest until the ext file
> system was developed).

Minix, not Xenix.

[...]

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