SCO Professional

[Tavis Ormandy]

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.

[Tavis Ormandy]

Post by Tavis Ormandy
The reason I thought it was licensed is because I know there was a Xenix
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.

[KP KP]

Post by Tavis Ormandy

Post by Tavis Ormandy
The reason I thought it was licensed is because I know there was a Xenix
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.
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html
Tavis.
--
_o) $ lynx lock.cmpxchg8b.com

Lol nice. How it work out for you?

[Garrett Meiers]

Post by Tavis Ormandy
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.
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.