Mt_Xinu

mt Xinu

mt Xinu

Software company founded in 1983

For the unrelated operating system with a similar name, see Xinu.

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]

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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

  1. [1]
    California Business Search results for Mt Xinu (Entity Number C1148179).
  2. [2]
    Salus 1994
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    "Mt Xinu ships Appleshare for HP workstations. InfoWorld, 10 September 1990, p. 51.
  5. [5]
    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.
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