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From: mikes@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Experience with SCO UNIX 5.3
Summary: SCO support seems OK
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.045152.28169@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 Dec 89 04:51:52 GMT
References: <522@mwtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: mikes@ncoast.ORG (Mike Squires)
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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In article <522@mwtech.UUCP> walter@mwtech.UUCP (Walter Mecky) writes:
>In the xenix-group there are some more or less hot debates to SCO in
>general and SCO UNIX 5.3 in special. I'll have to decide:
>
>	Should I buy 386/ix or SCO UNIX 5.3  ?
>
>My question to all of you who have experience with the SCO UNIX and/or
>ISC 386/ix:
.stuff deleted.
>3. How is the support from SCO ?

It is at least there, and they seem to come up with workarounds for problems
that cannot be fixed quickly.  All of the important updates are available
from their dial-up uucp site. My experience with other companies has been
much worse.

It's hard to compare disk access speed at this point - at least SCO UNIX
will be (hopefully) changing in terms of its SCSI support.  SCO and several
other companies have been working on speeding up SCSI support for both
XENIX and UNIX, and these changes will eventually wind up in both (I assume).

One product that SCO has that makes them hard to ignore is the product that
supports multiple CPU's in a single machine, such as the Compaq Systempro.