| Company / developer | VenturCom |
|---|---|
| OS family | Unix System III/System V |
| Working state | Historic |
| Initial release | ? |
| Latest stable release | 4.2.1 / 1994 |
| Marketing target | Industrial |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Supported platforms | DEC PRO-350 (PDP-11 compatible), DEC Rainbow 100, IBM PC |
| Kernel type | UNIX SV |
| Default user interface | X Window System, Motif, OpenLook |
Venix was a version of the Unix operating system developed by VenturCom.
Venix 2.0, based on System III, ran on the DEC PRO-350 microcomputer (Venix/PRO), the DEC Rainbow 100 (Venix/86R) as well as PCs (Venix/86 and /286). It was released in 1984. From version 3.0, Venix was based on System V.
Venix also included some features of BSD, such as csh and vi.
The last version Venix 4.2.1 based on UNIX System V Release 4.2 (UnixWare) was released in 1994. The workstation system included the real-time operating system, NFS and TCP/IP networking, X, OpenLook and Motif GUIs and the Veritas journaling File System (vxfs). A development system included additionally an ANSI C compiler, a library of real-time functions, GUI development software, real-time development utilities, and selected industrial I/O device drivers.
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