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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991May04.133331.15454@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 4 May 91 13:33:31 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.155002.7791@unixland.uucp> <24@metran.UUCP> <832@tiamat.fsc.com>
Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's LARGEST BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
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jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:

>> > How come a text-based
>> > application  like Wordperfect can't be made to run under all of the 386
>> > plataforms.

>I would guess there is a problem in WP 5.0, which is not strictly text based
>because of the document preview mode it has, which is cause by the fact that
>several unix386 vendors have adopted different ways to address the video
>hardware.  I think the new ABI standard worked out recently is supposed
>to solve this problem.

exactly - this put the display into a raw VGA graphics mode with zoom and
scroll options - to view the complete document as it will be printed - which
was a real timesaver this last semester.  The original 5.0 release of WP
(for UNIX) had a bug where this feature didn't work - but an updated release
of 5.0 is available where this has been corrected.

>This is the reason we stuck with SCO Unix.  I came to the conclusion that if
>any Unix 386 vendor was going to insure backward compatibility with Xenix,
>it would be SCO.  This is born out by the fact that we still build and
>execute programs using Xenix 286 libraries that were originally bought for
>Altos Xenix 286 on our SCO Unix machines.  And, by the fact that SCO Unix

FYI - we are running 386 Xenix, 286 Xenix and ISC UNIX binaries under
SVR4 2.0 without ANY problems ---

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      Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391
                         HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis 
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