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From: ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: The WHOLE scoop on UNIX 5.3 for the 80386
Message-ID: <845@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 12:31:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: vsedev.845
Posted: Sun Sep 20 12:31:06 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Sep-87 00:36:50 EDT
References: <411@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: ron@vsedev.UUCP (The Super User)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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Keywords: UNIX,5.3,Microport,80386,386

In article <411@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> rich@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Richard Pettit) writes:
>"So, whose product is it that I got when I bought my Bell Tech. machine ?"
>you're asking yourself. Microport. They are one of the companies that

I beg to differ with you here.  Actually Bell's version is 386/ix from
Interactive with Bell's device drivers for streaming tape, intelligent
serial card, non-intelligent serial card, etc.  The only thing
unbundled in the Bell release is the Documenter's WorkBench 2.0, and
of course vpix (the Interactive Systems DOS executive...).

As far as documentation goes, Bell gives you the AT&T hardware
specific documentation (differences specific to the 80386 port of UNIX
5.3), the System Administrator's Guide (from AT&T), and the System
Administrators Reference Guide (equivalent to section 1 of the normal
UNIX manual pages pertaining to administration.  They also give you
the generic AT&T UNIX 5.3 documentation as published by Prentice Hall
for AT&T.  You can of course buy as many copies of this as you need at
around $100 per complete set.

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