@mos_8502 @dankski In this case it's System V. But there's also the 386 versions of the same as well which is a little more supported, which then turned into SCO UNIX then UnixWare.

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Xenix was Microsoft's licensed version of UNIX, it originally started as a v7 derived UNIX for a few systems with SCO developing the 8086 port, and after Microsoft's basically abandoning of it by the mid 80s took over the entire thing

@ChartreuseK @dankski I think there is also Minix for that class of machine.

@mos_8502 @dankski There is yeah, though I'm not certain if Minix actually takes advantage of 286 protected mode or not. While Xenix 286 certainly does,

Both of them are equally impressive in working on a plain 8086 using just the segments for mmu (no protection but still works well with the classic unix model)

@ChartreuseK @mos_8502 @dankski what about Coherent? It won't provide TCP/IP but it's another one from the era ...

@Wintermute_BBS @mos_8502 @dankski Xenix 286 also does not provide TCP/IP, there is a TCP stack for Xenix 386 from late in that life before SCO UNIX replaced it.

Coherant is another UNIX like but not UNIX that would work too. I just felt like playing with XENIX

@ChartreuseK @mos_8502 @dankski If you need a Xenix command reference, still have one here somewhere ...

@Wintermute_BBS @mos_8502 @dankski speaking of UUCP, already on that. Though floppy disks are certainly faster than dial up uucp on a 19200 serial port. I started this 820k transfer 25m ago and it's still going. Theoretically it should take 6m but with UUCP g protocol overhead and possibly errors it's taking much longer.

@ChartreuseK @mos_8502 @dankski niiice, that's cool to see again, after so many decades ...

@Wintermute_BBS @mos_8502 @dankski I'll set up the more useful mail part of it later but wanted to play around with the copying part to see if it would be a viable way of transferring files to it.