[ale] consolidation of Intel-platform UNIX

[docdtv at mindspring.com (R I Feigenblatt)]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/jul/0705ibmsco.html
reports that:
	"IBM joins a list of companies that includes
	Compaq, Data General, ICL, NCR, Olivetti,
	Siemens Nixdorf, Unisys, and Intel that have
	signed on to support UnixWare." And SCO,
	owner of UnixWare, is working with HP on a
	follow-on called Gemini II. "...With IBM on
	board, almost all of the major proprietary
	Unix vendors running on Intel platforms have
	rallied under the SCO banner." 

A little history. AT&T, originator of Unix, spun off
this property as Unix Systems Lab a few years back.
The company was acquired by Novell, which eventually
sold it to SCO, the Santa Cruz Operation. Many years
ago, SCO acquired Microsoft's first operating system
-no, not DOS, but their version of Unix, called XENIX.
XENIX overwhelmed the early PCs and saw little success.
Microsoft eventually bought about 20% of SCO as well.

Ron Feigenblatt