Video History Project

Chronology

Microsoft

Date
1980
Microsoft introduces XENIX OS a portable and commercial version of UNIX operating system
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"Microsoft." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/microsoft.

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