ron@leopard.UUCP (10/17/84)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FLAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having had the chance to work on XENIX on the Lisa as well as several
different boxs, and also having worked on various Unisoft ports I
thought this would be of interest.
XENIX IS NOT A SYSTEM 3 UNIX!!!!!!!!!!
It is far closer to a version of BSD than BTL, and BSD does not claim
to be SYSIII or later. The Unisoft ports are indeed SYSIII and SYSV
also they are far more bug free than XENIX and far more stable,
at least they did not crash the systems when I tried to use the floppy
as XENIX has done to me on several occasions.
A friend of mine has obtained a copy of XENIX for the IBM-PC after my
warning him not to, after trying to get it to stay up for more than
a few minutes he is reformatting his hard drive and sticking to PCDOS.
At least Microsoft wrote something that works.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FLAME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In answering your question Xenix does or did not support the mouse or
any of the features Apple built in (/dev/mouse anyone?). The use of the
disk was terrible, after going in and throwing out have the things XENIX
supplied (including tar) that did not work I had about 5 meg to work with
up from 2-3 meg. I was never able to see or work on an Unisoft port
much to my regret so I do not know what they have done.
The opinions presented are my own and not the of the company.
...!harpo!groucho!{leopard|lion}!ronguy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (10/19/84)
> XENIX IS NOT A SYSTEM 3 UNIX!!!!!!!!!! > > It is far closer to a version of BSD than BTL, and BSD does not claim > to be SYSIII or later. It may be a version of V7, which *was* issued by BTL. It is not the case that all UNIX versions that aren't BTL, or USG, or USDL, or System <roman_numeral> are BSD versions. > A friend of mine has obtained a copy of XENIX for the IBM-PC after my > warning him not to, after trying to get it to stay up for more than > a few minutes he is reformatting his hard drive and sticking to PCDOS. > At least Microsoft wrote something that works. Err, umm... XENIX *is* a Microsoft product... Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy