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From: dmb@morgoth.UUCP (David M. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Requesting info on Xenix
Message-ID: <461@morgoth.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 15:21:38 GMT
Organization: Goldberg-Zoino and Assoc., Newton, MA
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I'm helping a friend evaluate proposals for a financial system for his
small sales and marketing company.  One proposed system included the
Real World (TM) software package running under the Cobol Runtime
System and Xenix on a Unisys 500/12.  

I have read most of the spex on the other stuff, but am curious about
Xenix.  Some questions:

	1.  How complete a subset of Unix is Xenix?  I'm thinking of
utilities and system management software.  He can probably do without
awk, sed, etc.  But, for example, how easy are the dump and restore?

	2.  Are all the standard signals supported?  In particular,
can you really stop and start jobs just like real Unix?  Is it a true
multi-user system or some sort of approximation?

	3.  What size of swap space partition would you recommend?
How big is the kernel?  What kind of performance drop is experienced
under various configurations of RAM and other resources?  What is the
most necessary resource (other than more RAM) to increase performance?

	4.  What else should I know?

I expect the answers to some of these questions are machine-dependent.
If so, please assume the machine is an IBM-AT compatible with an 80286
(is that redundant?).

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

David Brown
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ICF Technology, Robinson Plaza II, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA  15205
(412) 788-9200

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