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From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC/IX
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Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 05:29:20 EST
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[Person Wants to know PC/IX&XT vs AT&*NIX vs 6300+&UNIX, w.r.t. doing nroff,
C compiles, and uucp]

Having owned an XT at one time running Venix 2.1, and having benchmarked
PC/IX on an XT, my advise is to stay clear of either if you are
seriously considering using nroff or doing software development.
They just don't have the horses to do it properly.
 
 I'd recommend either getting an AT and Venix SVR2 (or XENIX, as you
 prefer, the Venix is slightly faster), or if you can wait till
 next year, an AT&T 6300+ and UNIX SVR2.  The AT+Venix SVR2 combination
 is what I personally use, and I am real happy with the performance
 doing nroff and C compilation [but don't waste your time with the
 optimizer].  The Venix SVR2 doesn't have Honey DanBer uucp, but the
 uucp supplied has been hacked to provide a modem-capabilities L-modems
 file.

 -Rick Richardson
 PC Research, Inc.
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