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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991May05.130126.16134@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 5 May 91 13:01:26 GMT
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pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:

>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.

Interesting... We run Progress on our multiprocessor Arix box -
and I wonder if the data files would run under Progress on a
386 Unix box?

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