Wonderful! Something to emphasize as per Byte, one of the big commercial advantages of Xenix over MS-DOS "multi-user" capability. Xenix was quite popular for the new market of "small office" systems, such as accounting, inventory, payroll where you could have multiple networked Xenix PCs operating on the same database. MS-DOS would not add rudimentary networking until version 3.x and by then Microsoft almost lost out to Novel NetWare as OS/2 LanMan failed to take off.
Paul Allen was a big fan of Xenix and wrote a memo, "Future plans for MS-DOS 2.0
or The Bridge to XENIX", about how it could morph into MS-DOS 2.x as a family of operating systems. ;-)
Wonderful! Something to emphasize as per Byte, one of the big commercial advantages of Xenix over MS-DOS "multi-user" capability. Xenix was quite popular for the new market of "small office" systems, such as accounting, inventory, payroll where you could have multiple networked Xenix PCs operating on the same database. MS-DOS would not add rudimentary networking until version 3.x and by then Microsoft almost lost out to Novel NetWare as OS/2 LanMan failed to take off.
Paul Allen was a big fan of Xenix and wrote a memo, "Future plans for MS-DOS 2.0
or The Bridge to XENIX", about how it could morph into MS-DOS 2.x as a family of operating systems. ;-)
What an incredible magazine cover!