They also worked in that wonderful mini-computer pricing model, that only a former mainframe customer or cable company exec could love.
We had SCO because it was (in the late 80s) the only way of getting more than 640K or 30Mb on a PC and we had to log a lot of data. Order a C compiler for $$$, when you install it you discover you don't have a pre-processor. Oh you want the software development add-on for the compiler ? That's more $$$$
Even more bizarrely we also had Kodak unix for PCs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
