stevem@fai.UUCP (06/24/86)
We are looking for a implementation of UN*X System V on the IBM PC AT. We have looked at the various versions of XEN*X and are not really happy with any of them. Does anyone out there know of an operating system that is REAL for the IBM PC that looks and acts like true System V? -- -- Steven A. Minneman (Fujitsu America Inc, San Jose, Ca) !seismo!amdahl!fai!stevem or !ihnp4!pesnta!fai!stevem The best government is no government at all.
dan@prairie.UUCP (06/25/86)
In article <226@fai.UUCP> stevem@fai.UUCP (Steve Minneman) writes: >We are looking for a implementation of UN*X System V on the IBM PC AT. >We have looked at the various versions of XEN*X and are not really happy >with any of them. Does anyone out there know of an operating system that >is REAL for the IBM PC that looks and acts like true System V? Microport Systems of Aptos CA (tel 800 722 8649) sells AT&T System V, Release 2 for the AT running in protected mode. It includes such things as vi, terminfo and curses, sdb, mailx (like Berkeley mail), sccs and the new make, ditroff, C, f77, etc. The best news is the price: just over $400 for the whole thing (run time, development, text processing). This is a very new product, and is not entirely mature. If you get it, you will be trading SCO bugs for AT&T bugs, especially in lint, which is very unreliable in this release. The compiler is very robust, however, and generates good and accurate code in large model, which is more than early Xenix did. Huge model is not supported, and may never be. I had little trouble bringing up news, rn, uumail, and a dbm library. Being System V, the SV compatibility is no problem. Other features include the ability to use the same modem for incoming and outgoing calls without special arrangments (demand bidrectional uucp feed is nice!), four virtual terminals on the console, ability to read and write DOS file systems, including hard disks (shaky, at the moment), support for non-standard hard drives, and an optional port of the Berkeley cshell and 'more' (the SV pager is bidirectional, and is called 'pg'). The ability to run Xenix binaries is coming ATN. SV R3 is on the way. A good guess would be availability at the end of the calendar year, if AT&T keeps its delivery promises to its licensees. Hope this helps ... -- Dan Frank {seismo, topaz, harvard, ihnp4}uwvax!geowhiz!netzer!prairie!dan -or- dan@caseus.wisc.edu