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From: dts@cullvax.UUCP (Daniel T Senie)
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Subject: Re: Re: PC/IX on an IBM AT, information requested.
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Date: Fri, 30-May-86 10:48:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 10:48:40 1986
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> In article <543@polaris.UUCP> herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) writes:
> >
> >PC/IX and Xenix are unix sys3 clones but are otherwise different beasts.
> >Xenix is by Microsoft/SCO.  PC/IX is by Interactive Systems Corporation.
> >
>   It is true that the only version of XENIX distributed by IBM is SYS III, 
> but MicroSoft/SCO are distributing the SYS V version. Someday the people
> at Big Blue will catch on ...

Do you folk read trade journals?

IBM announced XENIX 2.0 a few months ago. It is equivalent to Microsoft
XENIX 5.0. This is System V Rel. 2 compatible. IBM stopped supporting
PC/IX as of December 1985. I used the AT version: It doesn't work with
an EGA and uses real mode.

IBM is offering an upgrade from PC/IX to XENIX 2.0. They are no longer
selling PC/IX. I am currently using the SCO/XENIX V.2. SCO does NOT have
their act together. They give you phone support for only one month and
then will only entertain requests in writing. For the in writing support,
it's about $100 a year. Phone support runs MUCH higher.

SCO just sent me an update patch to the base system, a beta release of
the compiler, and still has some open questions of mine. Some programs
fail to compile with internal errors in the compiler.

We still have a copy of PC/IX here. I think I'm going to trade it in for
XENIX 2.0 from IBM. Maybe It'll be better. 

One additional note: the binders for the manuals for SCO/XENIX have this
habit of falling apart. I'd switch to IBM just to get better binders...


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