Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Microsoft Word & (SCO) Unix 3.2 Message-ID: <6031@ficc.uu.net> Date: 5 Sep 89 14:52:17 GMT References: <7227@megatest.UUCP> <14615@bfmny0.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 34 In article <14615@bfmny0.UUCP>, tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: > There seems to be some question about how "official" its status is, but > the RMK386 Developers Kit (for Unix V/386) comes with an OMF loader and > UDI emulator called UNXUDI, and brother, NOTHING touches it for > performance. Yes, we've been testing it. It is faster than the 286 tools under x286emul, but not that much faster. It's still slower than the 286 tools under Xenix-286. I suspect because it runs in 8086 mode and is limited to a Meg of RAM... as I mentioned in a previous message, we're talking about programs that typically chew up 2 megabytes and not infrequently over 4 megs. It also has the annoying problem of translating file names into and out of the DOS world (yes, I know it's not really DOS... it hooks into the UDI in the DOS tools at a higher level). It's almost impossible to get both the command line arguments and file names to work the same way as the Xenix tools, no matter what combination of -F, -C, and -S I try. > I don't think this works for the 286 tools, but I could be wrong. You're wrong, it works with the 286 tools. See... sometimes it's nice to be wrong :->. > I'm hopeful that having bought Bell > Tech, Intel will see the light and come on board to UNIX as a fully > hosted environment for all tools. Well, I'm hoping for it, but hopeful is a little strong. They've been moving *away* from UNIX for too long. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "The Distribution: field on the header has been modified so as not to 'U` violate Information Export laws." -- eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center.