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Fun fact: the Citrix remote desktop product, whatever it’s called these days, was initially a unix product.

I seem to remember the company was called a more unixy “Citus” early on.

Spent a few years working there with customers using it on solaris and eventually linux as well.

Not really, it was to bring Unix style multi-user remote terminal capability to DOS / OS/2 world.

Here's an interesting article on installing v1 of their product (on the same site there's follow-up articles on v2 of the Multiuser) - which builds on very early MS version of OS/2: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2017/11/17/installing-usi...

What I meant is that the backend - i.e the workspace/terminal delivered was a unix one with a client for OS/2.

I helped manage many solaris servers running citrix metaframe at one point, many years ago.

Close, it was actually shortly called Citrus, due to its Florida roots I presume. They renamed to Citrix using citrus + unix.

Typoed the “r”!

I remembered almost correctly then - something about it having unix roots. :)