Mt Xinu Explained

mt Xinu, Inc.
Fate:	dissolved
Founded:	^[1]
Hq Location City:	Berkeley, California
Hq Location Country:	United States

mt Xinu (from the letters in "Unix™", reversed) was a software company founded in 1983 that produced two operating systems. Its slogan "We know Unix™ backwards and forwards" is an allusion to the company's name and abilities.^[2]

mt Xinu offered several products:

• mt Xinu was a commercially licensed version of the BSD Unix operating system for the DEC VAX. The initial version was based on 4.1cBSD; later versions were based on 4.2 and 4.3BSD.
• more/BSD is mt Xinu's version of 4.3BSD-Tahoe for VAX and HP 9000, incorporating code from the University of Utah's HPBSD. It includes NFS.
• Mach386 is a hybrid of Mach 2.5/2.6 and 4.3BSD-Tahoe/Reno for 386 and 486-based IBM PC compatibles.

mt Xinu produced interoperability software for Macintosh and Unix, including an AppleShare server for Unix.^[3]

The company's principals were University of California, Berkeley computer science students and graduates, including Bob Kridle, Alan Tobey, Ed Gould, and Vance Vaughan. Debbie Scherrer was a later contributor.

mt Xinu made light-hearted Unix-themed calendars, including:

• Command of the Month (1987–1988)
• Lessons in Art (1989)
• Platform of the Year (1990)

A division of mt Xinu spawned Xinet, which was founded in 1991.^[4]

References

• Book: Salus, Peter . Peter Salus

. Peter Salus. 1994 . A Quarter Century of UNIX . Addison-Wesley . 0-201-54777-5 . 209.

Notes and References

1. California Business Search results for Mt Xinu (Entity Number C1148179).
2. Savage . J. A. . August 14, 1989 . Mt. Xinu aims for big firm's bucks, small firm's freedom . . CW Communications . XXIII . 33 . 80 . Google Books.
3. "Mt Xinu ships Appleshare for HP workstations. InfoWorld, 10 September 1990, p. 51.
4. Seebass . Scott . 2010-02-01 . Going digital: The future of DAM – An interview with Xinet CEO Scott Seebass . Journal of Digital Asset Management . en . 6 . 1 . 22–30 . 10.1057/dam.2009.35 . 1743-6559. https://web.archive.org/web/20180602111534if_/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fdam.2009.35. 2018-06-02.