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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ISC ?
Keywords: ISC System V
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Date: 4 Dec 89 20:52:50 GMT
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In article <111059@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:

| ISC wasn't working for me - so I called an ordered SCO Xenix 2.3.2.  I 
| installed Xenix - and everything overall ran quite well.  I never needed
| to call SCO for technical support - since the manuals were well written
| and combined with the information here on usenet - all of my questions
| were answered.  My Xenix news machine is running too well - and I am bored 
| and miss the fast Unix file system (I also heard about how neat rn is as a 
| news reader - and want to run rfmail which is a fidonet compatible package 
| written for Unix system V).  The Xenix machine runs so well, that if I died 
| the machine would keep running as long as the bills were paid.  I went on 
| vacation and the machine rebooted, checked the file systems and was back 
| on-line within a short period of time re-distributing news.  

  Your experience is much the same as mine. When I was ready to go to a
386 UNIX I got evaluation copies of Xenix, ISC, and Microport. I chose
Xenix because it was the most reliable. 2.3.3 is even more of the same,
it just runs and runs. I suppose that I will have to go to straight SysV
someday, and I suspect that it will be SCO again. They, too, have a fast
filesystem (if you turn off the security stuff), and someday that
security might be nice. The SCO development set has the MSC compiler for
286, 286, DOS, and OS/2, as well as pcc for those things which want it.

  ISC X seems to be the best available *today*. Don't quote me in a
month, it may not be true. If you can go ISC upgrade cheaply it may be
the thing to do. If you plan to run a lot of X you should us etheir X,
which I have been told will run under SCO UNIX as well (haven't tried
myself). 

  I'm sure that ISC has reliability up now, I talk to a lot of happy
users. Hope you report on what you do. BTW: rn runs fine under Xenix,
but if you have the latest (5.10.010 beta) compiler you will have to
hack it or use the older 2.2 compiler and headers.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me