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  SCO Professional Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 06:55 +0000
    Re: SCO Professional Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2022-06-24 15:40 +0000
      Re: SCO Professional KP KP <jungletrain@outlook.com> - 2022-09-18 17:40 -0700
      Re: SCO Professional Garrett Meiers <gmeiers@gmail.com> - 2023-03-21 10:09 -0500

#87 — SCO Professional

I happened to come across a copy of SCO Professional for Xenix, a 1-2-3
clone from 1988. It works pretty well, but until I tried it out I was
under the impression it was a licensed port not a clone!

The reason I thought it was licensed is because I know there was a Xenix
port of 1-2-3 announced:

https://books.google.com/books?id=tjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false

Was the official Xenix port ever released?

The menu layout in procalc is identical to 1-2-3 2.x, but the word
"lotus" never appears anywhere. This is the welcome message procalc
prints when you start it up, in case anyone is curious:

************************************
*                                  *
*         SCO Professional         *
*         ( 386 Version )          *
*                                  *
*  Portions Copyright (c) 1985-88  *
*  The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.  *
*   Portions Copyright (c) 1985    *
*   VIP Technologies Corporation   *
*       All Rights Reserved        *
*          Version 2.0.0           *
*            sco001429             *
************************************


Tavis.

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#88

On 2021-12-10, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> The reason I thought it was licensed is because I know there was a Xenix
> port of 1-2-3 announced:
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=tjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Was the official Xenix port ever released?
>

I doubt anyone reads this newsgroup, but I have an update - I was able to
track down the Xenix port! A copy was discovered on backup tapes from a
90s BBS.

I was even able to get it to work on Linux, I wrote an article about it here:

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

Tavis.

-- 
 _o)            $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com
 /\\  _o)  _o)  $ finger taviso@sdf.org
_\_V _( ) _( )  @taviso

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#89

On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:40:16 AM UTC-7, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> On 2021-12-10, Tavis Ormandy wrote: 
> > The reason I thought it was licensed is because I know there was a Xenix 
> > port of 1-2-3 announced: 
> > 
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=tjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false 
> > 
> > Was the official Xenix port ever released? 
> >
> I doubt anyone reads this newsgroup, but I have an update - I was able to 
> track down the Xenix port! A copy was discovered on backup tapes from a 
> 90s BBS. 
> 
> I was even able to get it to work on Linux, I wrote an article about it here: 
> 
> https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html
> Tavis. 
> 
> -- 
> _o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com 
> /\\ _o) _o) $ finger tav...@sdf.org 
> _\_V _( ) _( ) @taviso
Lol nice. How it work out for you?

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#93

On 6/24/22 10:40 AM, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> I doubt anyone reads this newsgroup, but I have an update - I was able to
> track down the Xenix port! A copy was discovered on backup tapes from a
> 90s BBS.
> 
> I was even able to get it to work on Linux, I wrote an article about it here:
> 
> https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

Just read your article -- very nice.   I never used 1-2-3 much back in 
the day.  I first started playing with spreadsheets on my Apple II using 
Appleworks.  Played with 1-2-3 briefly when I eventually got an IBM PC 
clone.

I might have to try this out on Linux just for fun.

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