petitp@cui.UUCP (PETITPIERRE Dominique) (03/01/86)
I've heard about three Unix System V like implementations for IBM PC/AT & compatibles: Venturcom's VENIX SYSTEM V.2 Santa Cruz XENIX Sys V.2 Olivetti's System V for it's announced M28 What are they like, what are their advantages/drawbacks? Has anybody had good/bad experience with them? Any benchmarks? How standard are they (uucp OK? cc OK?)? On which compatibles are they really running/ what would be the delicate point? Where can I buy them in Switzerland or Europe? Any pointers on literature (reports,articles etc)? Is there any other serious UNIX implementations for IBM PC/AT & compatibles (BSD 4.2 ? don't laugh, that would be so wonderful, a little dreaming doesn't harm). Thanks in advance for your help! Dominique Petitpierre uucp: mcvax!cernvax!cui!petitp ISSCO ean: petitp@cui.unige.chunet 54 route des acacias BITNET/EARN petitp%cui.unige.chunet@CERNVAX CH-1227 GENEVA (Switzerland) CSNET: petitp%cui.unige.chunet@ubc.csnet
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (03/03/86)
> I've heard about three Unix System V like implementations for IBM PC/AT & > compatibles... > > Is there any other serious UNIX implementations for IBM PC/AT & compatibles Microports (a spinoff from Digital Research) has a System V for the 286; I think Microports was started when Digital Research dropped their work on the official AT&T err, umm, microport of System V to the 286. > (BSD 4.2 ? don't laugh, that would be so wonderful, a little dreaming > doesn't harm). Don't hold your breath. 4BSD gets very upset when reminded that sizeof(int) does not necessarily equal sizeof(long) (although I remember seeing something in S5R2V2 for the VAX which looked like it had caught the same disease), and the 286 doesn't really like 32-bit arithmetic (even less so than the 68010, which at least has 32-bit registers and 32-bit move/add/subtract/bitwise boolean/unary arithmetic operations, although it doesn't have 32-bit multiply/divide and it does some of the rest 16 bits at a time) and thus has 16-bit "int"s. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.arpa (yes, really)