Anonymous@sri-unix.UUCP (10/04/84)
You might want to point out to people that the price shown for Xenix ($395) is completely unbundled. No text processing, no C compiler, etc. As I recall, the cost of the C compiler/development portion of Xenix is substantially more than that of the base system, though their annoucement only obliquely refers to this. [Does anyone have an asnwer to these claims? -Billy]
german@uiucuxc.UUCP (10/12/84)
Here's the scoop off IBM's Programming Announcement: XENIX Operating System 395.00 XENIX Software Development System 455.00 XENIX Text Formatting System 145.00 Total 995.00 XENIX Operating System Highlights: Supports 3 Mb of memory, multi-user, multi-tasking, dynamic memory managment via 80286 chip, hierachical file system, two command interfaces (bourne and visual shells), 3 editors (vi, ed, and sed), file-sharing protection and access control, background processes, co-residence with IBM PC DOS, file transfer between DOS and XENIX, support for the 80287 math coprocessor, several Berkeley extensions (more, termcap, curses). XENIX Software Development System Highlights: C compiler (output for DOS or XENIX), assembler, run-time library, lint, make, sccs, adb, yacc, several popular Berkeley extensions (strings, xstr, csh) XENIX Text Formatting System Hightlights: mm, eqn, tbl, spell, vi and ed, numerous technical document formatting tools, and several popular Berkeley extensions (diction, explain and style) The following compliers have been announced for XENIX: Fortran 595.00 Pascal 595.00 Cobol 1250.00 Basic 195.00 C 595.00 (NOTE: this version is optimized for the 68000) The above compilers maybe only for the System 9000 machines as they came from a response to a question on that machine rahter than the PC/AT. Greg German pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!german