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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: Re: PC/IX on an IBM AT, information requested.
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 00:39:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 00:39:11 1986
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Keywords: Xenix Bugs

In article <342@cullvax.UUCP> dts@cullvax.UUCP (Daniel T Senie) writes:
>
>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.

Yes, there are (still) bugs in SCO SYS V Xenix.  The 286 is essentially
hostile to Unix, and I haven't seen a 286 based timesharing system that
isn't crippled by  *today's*  standards.  Only Intel thinks the 286 is
in the same league as 32 bit machines, and they have been rather silent
on the subject since they introdiced the 386.  As Gates himself put it,
the 386 is the chip the 286 should have been.

There are also some hardware cretinisms in the PC-AT that make it hard to
write a reliable and efficient I/O system.  A 386 "compatible" motherboard
won't fix those problems.

>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.

SCO gets the compiler upgrades fairly quickly from Microsoft.  If Microsoft
ever gets a correct 286 C compiler, SCO won't be far behind.

>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. 

If your beef with SCO is bug fixing response, you'd better talk to some
IBM Xenix users about that subject ...

>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...

I don't particularly care for SCO's binders, but I haven't had any fall
apart.  I have cut notches in the top of the spines so I can use a finger
to pull them out of their boxes without a big fight.
>

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