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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted...Unix for PC
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Date: 26 Jun 89 05:30:21 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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In an earlier article zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith) writes:
>
>Although most everybody is proclaiming SCO's version
>of system V Unix to be the standard for 386 PCs, you may
>want to consider something less expensive, such as
>ENIX (Everex Unix V.3.2, based on AT&T's V.3.2 for the
>386)...
>
>A two-user ENIX system with C compiler (and awk and
>mail and everything) and X Window Ver 11R3 (EGA/VGA)
>costs only $600. -- A far cry from the approx $1500 you'd
>have to shell out for what people are calling the undis-
>puted standard. (Choke, cough, wheeze.)
>
(By the way - ENIX is now Officially "ESIX."  I always thought
"EVERIX" would be a great name...)

You also get TCP/IP with Ethernet drivers for WD8003E, a 3Com board
(3C501? 3C503? - I forget...), and an Everex Ethernet card.
Includes telnet, telnetd, ftp and ftpd.  (However I'm having
discussions w/ ESIX about a problem with the ftp that I expect will
be cleared up shortly.)

You also get a 2 kbyte Files system and a XENIX file
system-compatibility package.  (I've not used these, however.)
>
>ENIX is VP/ix-ready (or actually an enhanced version
>of it), amoung other things.

Uh, that's AT&T's SIMULTASK.. I understand that Locus's DOS/Merge
_MIGHT_ be in the works, too, but don't hold either ESIX or me to
that as a "done deal."
>
>Please note I have zero affiliation with either ENIX
>or Microport, I'm just offering advice.

Me, too.

kEITHe