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From: doug@cornell.UUCP (Douglas Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: AT Xenix, Pro. Graphics, hard disk temperature
Message-ID: <1250@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 11:36:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 11:36:24 1985
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AT Xenix review:
	Durability:  quite good.  I have yet to have a crash.  Twice the cp
		     command didn't accept what I thought were valid arguments,
		     but that's the only unexpected thing so far.
	Speed:  about like a mildly loaded 750.  Don't expect to have two
		compilations go at once with any speed.  Only one heavy
		user at a time is reasonable.
	Functionality:  The only Berkeleyism I miss is the job control - the
			^Z, fg, and all that.  Seems to have all the others.
			The C compiler occasionally doesn't know the return
			types of some of its own built-in functions, so they
			must be declared explicitly.

Professional Graphics Adapter review:
	Speed:  slow.  Forget about dynamic 3-d displays.
	Functionality:  Lots of fancy features.  However, the bit masking
			commands don't work right, making overlays virtually
			impossible.

Hard disk temperature theory:
	Our AT that went bad here (1 out of 4) was in an unheated room when
it died!  All the others have been in well-heated environments.  There may
be something to this theory.
						Doug Campbell
						doug@cornell.{UUCP|ARPA}