Venix
| 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 |
| Default user interface | X Window System, Motif, OpenLook |
Venix was a version of the Unix operating system for low-end computers, developed by VenturCom, a "company that specialises in the skinniest implementations of Unix".[1]
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. A real-time version based in System V.3.2 was released for the 386 in 1990.[1]
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.
