Re: What is SCI UNIX?

["David B.Teague" <dbt@cs.wcu.edu>]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:

> What does SCO stand for and might the driver be compatible with
> Linux?

Hans

SCO == Santa Cruze Operation, a Xenix distributor, and if I recall
correctly, the current owner of the System V Unix sources. 

The *name*, Unix, is owned by a consortium that runs a test on
your operating system and "awards" the permission to call your OS
Unix to those that pass, at considerable some expense, I suspect.

Compatibility of SCO Unix drivers drivers with Linux is doubtful. 
I don't see how name and address compatibility (necessary for
linking the driver to the kernel) is possible. 

--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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