Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap
From: yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.160109.20103@me.toronto.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 21:01:10 GMT
References: <841@crash.cts.com>
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jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

>atk@tigger.colorado.edu (Alan T. Krantz) writes:
>>Is a BSD version of unix available for the PC (80386)? If so - how much
>>is it?
>
>We went over this before, there is no such thing.  A lot of System V
>implementations with a C-Shell, but no real BSD.  The closest thing is
>SunOS 4.0.x for the Sun 386, but that will only run on a Sun 386i.
>
>Why SCO and various other makers of PC-Unix license from AT&T instead of BSD
>is a mystery to me, but that's the way it works in the PC domain.

BSD is a pig, don't get me wrong, I live and die by it (there's nothing
worse than working on a Sys V machine, hitting ^Z, and having nothing
happen).  Sys V is leaner and is the preference of businesses; a much
larger market than us poor academic types.  Xenix is your best bet, its
got a bunch of BSD extensions.
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