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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted...Unix for PC
Message-ID: <[3491.2]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 29 May 89 14:00:06 GMT
References: <43670@vax1.tcd.ie> <31860@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
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>In article <43670@vax1.tcd.ie> jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>|   Can anyone out there recommend a good version of Unix for a PC?
>|If anyone knows of one or can even give me a copy of one, I would be
>|very grateful. 
>
We use and recommend SCO Xenix V/386.

I've had problems with Interactive 386/ix, which are still unresolved after
months of haggling with them.  SCO has never had a serious problem that the
maker was unable or unwilling to fix in my experience.

SCO is a little more expensive, but you do get what you pay for.  Xenix has
a few things that the others leave out too, like "dbm" (a database primitive
package).  Both 386/ix and SCO will run each other's binaries at this point.

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