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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Summary of Un*x's for PC/XT
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 20:30:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 20:30:09 1986
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SCO XENIX doesn't come with a Fortran, although I think you can buy a
Microsoft Fortran, which, in its DOS incarnation, is universally
reviled by Fortran connoisseurs.  In other respects, SCO XENIX V
is pretty good.  The "System III / V" overhead is a silly argument,
it seems to me.  You can always delete programs you don't want (if that's
what was meant.)  VENIX (at least early VENIXes) had a V6 file system
which is a bit faster than an untuned V7 file system, but I don't think the
difference is enough to make that the criterion for choosing a UNIX system
for your PC.  Recent VENIX systems are System V based.  Don't know what
their file system looks like.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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