moving from SCO to Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:13:07PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
>> >> UNIX System Release 4.0, UNIX System Version 3.0 On another screen, I
>> >
>> > *laugh* THAT is outright wrong.  Not that you related it, but that it
>> > says that anywhere.  SCO made a conscious decision NOT to go SVR4, and
>> > everything they have is SVR3 and then custom modified by them.  They
>> > decided to carve their own path, and at some point said as much when
>> > they came under critiism for being late to adopt R4 standards.
>> 
>> He probably just munged it a little from memory and transposed words &
>> numbers. Anyone familiar with sco would not have a problem mentally
>> correcting. I extremely doubt that anything anywhere in the entire system
>> claims to be greater than SVR3, but in some places they use the words
>> "release" and "version" a little inconsistently.
>> 
>> He has some version of SCO Unix 4.x
>> Whos full name is Unix System V Release 3.something Version 4.something
>
>Version 3.2 Release 4.[012]
>
>OpenServer 5 is 
>
>Version 3.2 Release 5.0.x
>
>> I dont know if it was called "Open Server" at that point but just "SCO
>> Unix", or possibly "Open Desktop" But since I know there was and Open
>> Desktop 3.0, I guess since they were using the word "Open" at all they'd
>> probably have been naming the server release "Open Server" by then too. I
>> just don't recall ever hearing or seeing "Open Server 4" or "OSR4" before.
>
>Open Desktop was a different 3.x, iirc.  This would be a jpr or Tony
>question.

OpenDesktop 2.0 first appeared with 3.2v4.0 in the first quarter of 1992.
The 3.2v4.0 system was the first to support long file names and symbolic
links, while the earlier versions of SCO Unix were restricted to the same
14 character file names as Xenix and had no symlinks.  Xenix was far more
stable, and didn't have a ``security'' system that could render the system
unusable, even by root, so we stuck with Xenix until ODT 2.0 came out.

Bill
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