mt Xinu
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| Founded | July 28, 1983[1] |
|---|---|
| Defunct | June 26, 1995[1] |
| Fate | dissolved |
| Headquarters | , |
mt Xinu (from the letters in "Unix™", reversed) was a software company founded in 1983 that produced two operating systems. Its slogan "We know Unix™ backwards and forwards" is an allusion to the company's name and abilities.[2][3]
mt Xinu offered several products:
- mt Xinu was a commercially licensed version of the BSD Unix operating system for the DEC VAX. The initial version was based on 4.1cBSD; later versions were based on 4.2 and 4.3BSD.
- more/BSD is mt Xinu's version of 4.3BSD-Tahoe for VAX and HP 9000, incorporating code from the University of Utah's HPBSD. It includes NFS.
- Mach386 is a hybrid of Mach 2.5/2.6 and 4.3BSD-Tahoe/Reno for 386 and 486-based IBM PC compatibles.
mt Xinu produced interoperability software for Macintosh and Unix, including an AppleShare server for Unix.[4]
The company's principals were University of California, Berkeley computer science students and graduates, including Bob Kridle, Alan Tobey, Ed Gould, and Vance Vaughan. Debbie Scherrer was a later contributor.
mt Xinu made light-hearted Unix-themed calendars, including:
- Command of the Month (1987–1988)
- Lessons in Art (1989)
- Platform of the Year (1990)
A division of mt Xinu spawned Xinet, which was founded in 1991.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b California Business Search results for Mt Xinu (Entity Number C1148179).
- ^ Salus 1994
- ^ Savage, J. A. (August 14, 1989). "Mt. Xinu aims for big firm's bucks, small firm's freedom". Computerworld. Vol. XXIII, no. 33. CW Communications. p. 80 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Mt Xinu ships Appleshare for HP workstations. InfoWorld, 10 September 1990, p. 51.
- ^ Seebass, Scott (2010-02-01). "Going digital: The future of DAM – An interview with Xinet CEO Scott Seebass". Journal of Digital Asset Management. 6 (1): 22–30. doi:10.1057/dam.2009.35. ISSN 1743-6559. Archived from the original on 2018-06-02.
- Salus, Peter (1994). A Quarter Century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley. p. 209. ISBN 0-201-54777-5.