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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
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Date: 12 Dec 89 02:36:03 GMT
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yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>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.

A lot of it is personal preference.  After using SunOS 4.0.x for awhile on a
386i and SPARCstation 1 and using SysV on AT&T 3B machines, I have found that
BSD based Unix wins out by far.  Remember, BSD added the networking interface
and sockets to Unix, AT&T didn't originally.

You are right about SCO Xenix however.  I do know you can get TCP/IP for it
and there is a BSD socket library available from SCO, but this may only be
limited to the 386 version.
 
     // JCA

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