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From: amos@nsc.nsc.com (Amos Shapir NSTA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: kit wishlist and software
Message-ID: <4988@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 24 Feb 88 21:25:04 GMT
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In article <23506@hi.unm.edu> cyrus@hi.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) writes:
>We are currently porting GENIX to our hardware.
>To those of you who have suggested using GENIX, I would say DO NOT
>USE IT.  Namely, the GENIX C compiler, along with GENIX itself,
>uses external procedures (i.e. cxp, rxp, lxp, etc) which is VERY
>VERY VERY VERY............ SLOW.  It is my understand that the NS
>SYSV, though, does NOT use the external procedure stuff which will
>make it a lot faster than GENIX.

The GENIX you refer to is National's port of BSD 4.1 unix.
All new unix ports by National use jsr/bsr rather than cxp;
but to make things more confusing, they are also called GENIX...

Check our software products catalog for details as to which is which.

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