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From: mellon@mit-prep.ARPA (Ted Lemon)
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Subject: PC/IX on an IBM AT, information requested.
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 22:43:10 EDT
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   From: mab@mtx5c.UUCP (Michael Brochstein)
   Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
   Date: 20 May 86 18:21:38 GMT
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> 	   I am considering the purchase of an IBM AT for program
> development using C.  The target environment will also be AT's as well
> as other Xenix based supermicros.  I need information from someone who
> is currently using a PC/IX (or other version of Xenix) based AT .  My
> questions are about PC/IX, its development utlities, and the speed of
> an AT running multi-user under PC/IX.

	First of all, PC/IX is not the same product as Xenix.   PC/IX
	does not run in protected mode, and is thus not a good idea
	when you are using an AT, although I hear it does work on the
	AT.    I am using SCO system V.  It works very nicely - I
	haven't noticed any slowness compared with MS-DOS, in fact
	quite the opposite.   I suspect that the layout of the hard
	disk directories is better.   I don't run more than two users
	at a time (me and me), however, so I don't know how it would
	stand up in that case.

	The utilities that come with Xenix are complete UNIX, along
	with some MS-DOS related stuff.   The only notable lack is
	that there is no on-line database for man(1).   The MS-DOS
	utilities allow you to read and write from an MS-DOS partition
	on your hard disk drive, or on a floppy.   You can also
	compile and link for an 8086 based MS-DOS system, generating
	an actual MS-DOS .EXE file.   Pretty nifty.   If I didn't have
	so much invested in MS-DOS already, I would be using Xenix
	exclusively.

			       _MelloN_
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