Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!hriso!attdso!ssc!fyl
From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What DTP package ?
Summary: works with VP/ix under XENIX
Message-ID: <574@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:54:56 GMT
References: <1957@ktibv.uucp> <4224@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> <584@auvax.AthabascaU.CA> <1448@chansw.UUCP>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <1448@chansw.UUCP>, chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) writes:
> 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:

My comments are related to running it under VP/ix 1.1 on XENIX.

> 1. Ventura will only run from a "DOS" drive, not a network drive, without
>    running out and buying the network version.

I just loaded it onto the XENIX file system by running vpix as a user and
then running the Ventura install script.  It installed fine.

> 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.

True.  Our postscript printer is on another systems anyway so I uucp the
files over to print.  This is done by a shell script so you don't see the
kludge.

> 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).

We are running it on a 16MHz cache buffered 386.  It seems to run at
about the same speed as on a 16MHz 386SX.

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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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