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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BSD Unix for the PC?
Message-ID: <1907@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 14:23:46 GMT
References: <881@crash.cts.com>
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <881@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

| 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.

  Absolutely. I prefer Xenix to BSD, and when given a chance to get a
386i or 25MHz Dell I went with the Dell. I just like the virtual
terminals paradigm better, and I can run X in one or more virtual
terminals. Other people like BSD and {pick one here} windows.
| 
| 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.

  You can get either the SCO TCP library or Excelan. I have Excelan, and
it's been available for 286 for about three years, and I ran it in an AT
for over two. Nice and solid. The SCO implementation includes SL/IP, and
it works well. Haven't tried the SCO socket library... it looks like the
right stuff. SCO has sendmail, Excelan will run uucp over ethernet.

  Both good products, we run them both here.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon