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From: mitchell@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Xenix support for the 386 and DOS...
Message-ID: <1452@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 13:14:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 13:14:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Apr-87 06:22:40 EST
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I am interested in buying a 80386 AT class machine with about 2.5 meg of 
memory and about 60 -> 85 meg hard disk so that a bussiness with five users 
can use it to store and retrieve information and send messages around to each 
other and also, eventually run DOS programs like Wordperfect and OMNIS3 (
billing, inventory, invoice processing, etc...).

My thought was to get the hardware and then get SCO Xenix so that the people 
would be able to store information, send each other mail, talk to each other
on the "phone" or "talk" facility and then, at the end of the day, they could 
print out all of the daily data stored in the plain text files under Xenix and 
then boot up DOS and key the new invoices, inventory, billing into Omnis3 and 
generate their reports and such.

This isnt the target scenario, but I thought that it *was* a way to get this
buissines going, multiuser, under Xenix, right now (cause they are dropping
all kinds of invoices and billing and such on the floor and they need auto
mation NOW!).

Then, when 386 Xenix comes out (when???), we could install that and they
could have Dos and Xenix running multiuser (which is the target scenario).


I have some questions:

When will the 386 Xenix come out?

What do you know about it?

What are it's new features?

How many users can it (and 286 xenix) support concurrently?

Will it *really* run Dos programs in a multiuser environment without a hitch?

Is the hardware that I mentioned sufficient?

Will the current Xenix be able to do "talk" or "phone", email and uucp
(logins over the phone too)?

Will Xenix (currently) run on a 386 (i dont see why not!)?

What will multiuser (5 users) be like under the current version of Xenix?

What sort of "multiport" card should I get for the 4 additional terminals?

How much disk space will the system (286 Xenix and later 386 Xenix) need?

Will I be able to dial into this system over a phone line (how hard is that
to set up)?

If I had the hardware now, which Xenix would I want to get?

-- Any experiences, advice, corrections with this type of multiuser 
environment under Xenix that you wish to share with me are welcome!!!

Please respond to this via email (as well as news, if you wish).

Thanks,

Mitchell

-- 
Mitchell Lerner
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