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EvanAnderson • today at 4:00 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I think their cash registers ran SCO Xenix.

Tandy had a Xenix license from Microsoft and shipped a version on their TRS-80 Model 16 and Tandy 6000 machines (both of which were Motorola 68000-based). It would be interesting to know how much of their own stuff they used internally. I have a recollection of a (potentially apocryphal) story the TRS-80 Model 1 had a "fallback" use as an in-store management computer if they failed to sell.


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chasil • today at 4:09 PM

Free OpenServer appeared in 1996. The cash registers were running on the x86 platform, for sure (68000 was a dead architecture for general purpose computing by then - Apple had been on POWER for several years).

https://www.eetimes.com/sco-provides-free-unix-system-licens...

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