Questions tagged [xenix]
for questions about the Xenix operating system
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Why did so many OS names end in "x?" [closed]
This was asked by @ilkkachu in comments, but I've always wondered about it myself.
Unix, Posix, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix... not to mention Active-X and Xbox.
I know it all began ...
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What should be put to the first 128 bytes of the code segment in Xenix 86?
I'm writing a hello-world program for Xenix 86 in NASM. See the full source code. If I only put this to the code segment, then it fails with segfault (Memory fault) on Xenix 286:
mov ax, 4 ; ...
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What were the differences between Xenix and Unix?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix by the beginning of the nineties, SCO was selling 32-bit 386 versions of both Xenix and Unix. According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?
Browsing MS-DOS sources on GitHub, I often see mentions of XENIX:
DOSSYM.ASM:
; XENIX calls all return error codes through AX. If an error occurred then the
; carry bit will be set and the ...
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How POSIX-compliant is Xenix?
Xenix was the most popular Unix flavour of the 80's. However, it was designed before the POSIX standards came to be, and its final version was released shortly after the first POSIX specification was ...
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