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From: chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What DTP package ?
Summary: Ventura with VP/ix
Message-ID: <1448@chansw.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 05:54:30 GMT
References: <1957@ktibv.uucp> <4224@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <584@auvax.AthabascaU.CA>
Organization: Chan SmartWare Computers, Worcester, MA
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In article <584@auvax.AthabascaU.CA>, louis@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Louis Schmittroth) writes:
> I run Xenix 3.2.1 with VP/ix.  Does anyone our there know whether Ventura
> runs on VP/ix?

Ventura 2.0 runs fine under ISC's VP/ix.  A couple of upshots, though:

1. Ventura will only run from a "DOS" drive, not a network drive, without
   running out and buying the network version.  This restricts you to using
   either the virtual C: drive (10M limit), or to playing around with
   DOS partitions on your HD for > 10M of disk space.  10M isn't very
   much to deal with, and you can easily fill that space with printer
   fonts / screen fonts.  Ventura views the Unix drive (Z:) as a network
   drive, and hence the single-user version fails.  There might be a way
   to kludge around this, and I wish I had the time to experiment.

2. Printing is extremely slow if you try to print to a printer; better off
   printing to a FILE which eventually gets onto the UNIX partition, and
   spooling to the unix lp device.

3. Performance is rather slow -- subjectively, I would rate performance
   somewhere between a Turbo-XT and a 8Mhz AT, though it is running
   on a much faster 386 machine (25Mhz).
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