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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 386 unix (was Re: 386 demand paged virtual memory)
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 23:02:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 23:02:38 1987
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In article <1583@chinet.UUCP> randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess) writes:
>In article <306@kksys.UUCP> gk@kksys.UUCP (Greg Kemnitz) writes:
>>... But I have heard that the Bell Technologies $99.00 ($399(?) with
>>manuals) 386 UNIX V port -is- shipping.  Supposed to be a *full*
>>system including development and text processing.
>	From what I understand, Bell's UNIX is re-packaged Microport
>	UNIX.

No, Bell Technologies is shipping the AT&T/Intel/Interactive version
that Interactive Systems did.  (This is what friends at ISC tell me.)
I'd be interested in hearing comparisons of Microport vs. ISC Unix.
They're both based on recent versions of Sys V, so you'd expect them to
be similar.  Are they binary compatible, or is that too much to expect?
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