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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: <1@ULKYVX.bitnet>
Summary: 386/ix works fine for me
Message-ID: <1242@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 23:42:57 GMT
References: <1@ULKYVX.bitnet> <6100015@adaptex> <111049@nstar.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <111049@nstar.UUCP>, larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
> In article <6100015@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP writes:
> > I need some information of Unix OS's for PCs.  I am probably going to set up a
> > multi-USER system for some one.  He has a Gateway 2000 386 machine currently (I
> 
> I would suggest SCO Xenix which is a solid operating system - and supports
> most of the popular hardware available today.  I have been running it for 
> the last 2 months without a single problem.  Prior to SCO Xenix, I was running
> Interactive Unix System V - and that is a bag of worms.  Xenix is tested
> and works - as advertised.      

I don't know what version of 386/ix you tried, but the current release is
pretty clean.  I have been using it for the past 6 months without any 
problems.  I have the latest in hard disk, display adapters, serial i/o, and
ethernet networking installed without a problem.

I have ported lots of code to 386/ix without a problem, but when the code
is ported to my 2.3.2 release of Xenix there are lots of problems.  Some are
coding problems, some are compiler differences.

Just about any Xenix program will run under 386/ix so that isn't a problem.


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