Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix on the ibm pc?
Message-ID: <10871@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 17 May 88 17:33:23 GMT
References: <1321MLWLG@CUNYVM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1321MLWLG@CUNYVM> MLWLG@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
| I have asked been asking around if anybody knows of a unix system for
| for the ibm pc (compatibles...), but the answers were no.
| 
| Information about unix and the ibm pc would be appreciated. In
| particular;
| 
|  1 Does such a system exist?
## yes
| 
|  2 Is there a public domain version?
## not really. There is mimix, but it's more educational than a
## serious commercial system.
|
|  3 Who are the software vendors?
## XENIX	SCO			mostly SysV
## VP/ix	IBM/INteractive		pure SysIII
## Venix	Venturecom		mostly SysV + real time
| 
|  4 What are the price ranges?
## $600-1600 depending on optional packages
| 
|  5 Et cetera.
## PC/ix is dead reliable, and we still have machines using it here.
## It runs fine with 1-2 people and uucp/mail in most cases, although
## you will feel it if you get two people doing CPU intensive stuff.
## Anything on an 8088 will be slow.
| 
|  Thank You.....


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