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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991May4.210334.27553@cti-software.nl>
Date: 4 May 91 21:03:34 GMT
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evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

>Anyway, anything running on terminals (or the console in text-only
>mode) works just fine under ESIX, thank you. And software packages
>that don't play with the console (including most DBMS systems) don't
>generally have special versions for different 386 implementations.

Some DBMS systems, although they don't play with the console,
bypass the filesystem, which may cause incompatibilities.

PROGRESS 4GL/RDBMS is such an example. You can't run UNIX Progress
on XENIX or the other way around, even though the binaries will
execute. This may also explain the need for a different version
for SCO, since it does not use the S51K filesystem.
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