unixware 2.13 2.1.3

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From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: SCO rookie!
References: <01c17e40$109ee4e0$cd0b12ac@pc3633> 
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:45:56 GMT

Niels Kjelstrup wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I have just received 4 new platforms with sco unix on, my problem is that
> im a sco rookie... ;-) I have a simple quistion. Please list the UnixWare
> version history.
> 
> My platforms is running UnixWare 2.1.3 which I think is pretty old, each
> time a do a search on
> google UnixWare 7 shows up...?? Did the jump from 2.1.3 to 7?

Yes.  When SCO bought the White Elephant formerly known as Unixware they
started their version numbering at 7.  When Caldera bought the White
Elephant formerly known as SCO, they further confused things by
packaging it as Open Unix 8.

If Caldera someday decides to sell it to the next sucker, it will
undoubtedly be called something else.  Unless the next sucker is Sun, in
which case it will quietly fade away into history.

> 
> I need a SCO unix book about 2.1.3 (System Administration). The only one
> for sale at amazone is UnixWare 7 System Administration by Gene Henriksen
> and Melissa Henriksen. Is it ok for Unixware 2.1.3 ?


Not really.  Some of it will apply, and some of any Unix text will
apply, but it has its own little cutesy ways with some things.

The 2.1.3 really bites- I had the misfortune to have had a fair bit of
exposure to that cantankerous and notably unfriendly environment.  I
wouldn't wish it on anyone.

--
Tony Lawrence
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