Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!fstc-chville.army.mil!hqda-ai!media!ka3ovk!cmi486!spiff!spiff!gar From: gar@spiff.UUCP (Gordon Runkle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO License security - another flame Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 14:58:39 GMT References: <1165@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de> <91V712w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1991May04.194857.12216@kithrup.COM> Sender: gar@spiff.cminc.com (Gordon Runkle) Distribution: comp Organization: Runkle Research: Arlington, VA Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of 4 May 91 19:48:57 GMT In article <1991May04.194857.12216@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: In article <91V712w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >System Vr4.0, A piece of crap. Buggy as hell, larger than 3.2, slow, ugly. I must take issue with this. I use SCO UNIX, SCO XENIX, and SVR4. SVR4 is far and away the superior product. For example, I can network with BSD machines much better (lp works accross the net), whereas SCO's products require some unfortunate "rsh" (or for SCO, "rcmd") hacks to get an impoverished imitation of network printer services. As far as the 'buggy as hell' assertion, this seems to echo SCO's official position, and is not consistent with reality. I've not encountered any showstoppers in SVR4. (SCO didn't complain when SCO UNIX 3.2v0 was 'buggy as hell'.) The next version of SVR4 (version 3) should fix the few remaining annoyances. Yes, it's larger than 3.2. That's largely because it does more. (Better VM, VFS, etc). Slow? Doesn't look too slow to me, and I'm not even running it on "hot" hardware. Ugly? Seems a pretty subjective statement to me. -=gordon=- -- Gordon A. Runkle, Runkle Research UUCP: uunet!cmi486!spiff!gar INTERNET: gar@spiff.cminc.com PHONE: 703-522-0825 The difference between 'theory' and 'practice' in theory is less than the difference between 'theory' and 'practice' in practice. --Unknown sage