lee@stsci.uucp (Lee Butler) (05/22/86)
A few weeks ago I posted a request for opinions of Unix clones available
for the PC/XT. The resposnses I got were divided as follows:
OS recommendations Comments
SCO Xenix II System III (now System V)
PC/IX I System III, no fortran
Venix I V7, no overhead from SIII/SV
It is interesting to note that the two recommendations for SCO Xenix also
advised against Venix. The recommendation of PC/IX was interesting but
because it lacks fortran I dare not select it (my wife the physicist would
be upset at my selecting an OS without a fortran compiler for her use).
The one recommendation of Venix mentioned that Venix is V7 and had less system
overhead than the SIII and SV implementations.
Lee A. Butler
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Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Drive Baltimore, Md. 21218dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) (05/24/86)
SCO XENIX doesn't come with a Fortran, although I think you can buy a
Microsoft Fortran, which, in its DOS incarnation, is universally
reviled by Fortran connoisseurs. In other respects, SCO XENIX V
is pretty good. The "System III / V" overhead is a silly argument,
it seems to me. You can always delete programs you don't want (if that's
what was meant.) VENIX (at least early VENIXes) had a V6 file system
which is a bit faster than an untuned V7 file system, but I don't think the
difference is enough to make that the criterion for choosing a UNIX system
for your PC. Recent VENIX systems are System V based. Don't know what
their file system looks like.
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