Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!stl!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Which UNIX? Message-ID: <1990Sep26.134156.1569@robobar.co.uk> Date: 26 Sep 90 13:41:56 GMT References: <5ou3P1w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 39 mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: > Xenix is an > awful almost-Unix clone from Microsoft. Wrong. Xenix is a port of *REAL UNIX*(TM) by Microsoft. To quote the build program from C News: v7 Version 7 (4.1BSD is pretty close, ditto Xenix) Now, if Henry Spencer thinks that Xenix is pretty close to v7 functionalilty, that's good enough for me! And v7 is, after all, the One True Unix. So: Xenix is a port of Unix (v7 and Sys III kernels have variously been used as the porting base for different versions of Xenix, I think) and it behaves enough like v7 for most applications. This means it's an "almost-Unix clone" ? Sorry. No. Wrong answer. Now, it is true that some of the Xenix utilities are like the Microsoft C Compiler (barf!) -- calling it a C compiler may be a little ambitious, but you can change that, can't you? e.g. I use the GNU C compiler myself. To bring a little relevance to this newsgroup, it might be useful to remind Mr Unangst that a modern Xenix (since he did mention SCO's name) in SCO Xenix 386 of the current variety will acutally execute System V/386 COFF binaries as well as Xenix 86, 286 *and* 386 ones of assorted kinds. Indeed, with the latest maintenance supplement, cpio(1) *IS* the exact same COFF binary that SCO ship with their System V/386. Xenix, SCO and Microsoft may well have problems, but "Xenix not being Unix" isn't one of them. Please stop, desist and refrain from spreading misinformation. Thank you and good morning. -- ronald@robobar.co.uk | +44 81 991 1142 (O) | +44 71 229 7741 (H) | YELL! "Nothing sucks like a VAX" -- confirmed after recent radiator burst! Hit 'R' to continue .....