robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) (02/27/90)
I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20. Does AT&T sell their
unix for hardware other than AT&T? I could use SCO unix, but I would like
to use the same unix as we have at work, which is AT&T.
Thanks,
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robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) writes: >I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20. Does AT&T sell their >unix for hardware other than AT&T? I have been using 3.1 and 3.2 for the last 18 months on a 386 televideo with no problems with the basic UNIX. However, I have yet to find a satisfactory nfs. Also it is expensive if you wish all the bells and whistles as tcp/ip, nfs, vpix, ksh, mouse driver etc are all unbundled yet base price is comparable to other bundled systems.
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (02/28/90)
In article <1990Feb27.044606.14253@csustan.CSUStan.Edu> robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) writes: >I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20. Does AT&T sell their >unix for hardware other than AT&T? I could use SCO unix, but I would like >to use the same unix as we have at work, which is AT&T. AT&T doesn't support placing thier unix on a non-AT&T box. (It will work, but they don't want to get into the headaches of umpteen million different configurations and the little differences between them). If you want pretty much pure AT&T stuff you can get ESIX, or Bell Tech (now Intel) Unix. Interactives Unix is the same kernel, with additional performance modifications/additions. I run interactive unix because of the much better X support and high performance disk driver that was only available from interactive at the time I bought my main system. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (03/02/90)
In article <1990Feb27.044606.14253@csustan.CSUStan.Edu> robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) writes:
<I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20. Does AT&T sell their
<unix for hardware other than AT&T? I could use SCO unix, but I would like
<to use the same unix as we have at work, which is AT&T.
The SCO and ISC versions of Unix for the PC (I have the Compaq 386/20e running
ISC version 2.0.2) are the AT&T System V release 3.2.
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:<@cs.wisc.edu,@astroatc:brown@vidiot>tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (03/03/90)
In article <209@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >The SCO and ISC versions of Unix for the PC (I have the Compaq 386/20e running >ISC version 2.0.2) are the AT&T System V release 3.2. /\ / \ / \ BASED ON! Each vendor, including AT&T as an end user vendor, handles installation/configuration, some device drivers and documentation itself. Each vendor does some value adding as well. Therefore installation compatibilites vary. It is legitimate to want the exact same release on all boxes under one's control. (Whether it's feasible to do so, or worth the cost, is another matter.) -- "A man came into the the office one day and said he \|/ Tom Neff was a sailor. We cured him of that." - Mark Twain, -O- tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET on his days as a doctor's apprentice in California. /|\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff
stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure) (03/03/90)
In article <209@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: > >The SCO and ISC versions of Unix for the PC (I have the Compaq 386/20e running >ISC version 2.0.2) are the AT&T System V release 3.2. I don't think so. SCO and AT&T V.3.2 are not totally compatible. There are differences as SCO saw fit to do their own thing because they have an incredibly high market share in 386/Unix. Steve ----- Steve.McClure@Columbia.NCR.COM The above are my opinions, which NCR doesn't really care about anyway! CAUSER's Amiga BBS! | 803-796-3127 | 8pm-8am 8n1 | 300/1200/2400
John_Robert_Breeden@cup.portal.com (03/05/90)
AT&T was selling V/386 long before they sold 386 machines. So, guess what they used as a target box? You got it - COMPAQ! They still use two targets, AT&T and Compaq 386s (look in the root of Rel 3.1 or 3.2 - there's a file called compaq).
ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) (03/06/90)
In article <209@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >In article <1990Feb27.044606.14253@csustan.CSUStan.Edu> robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) writes: ><I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20. Does AT&T sell their ><unix for hardware other than AT&T? I could use SCO unix, but I would like ><to use the same unix as we have at work, which is AT&T. > >The SCO and ISC versions of Unix for the PC (I have the Compaq 386/20e running >ISC version 2.0.2) are the AT&T System V release 3.2. >-- The SCO UNIX System V 3.2 is *based* on AT&T's System V rel 3.2 and SCO's own XENIX (which in itself is a modified version of Microsoft XENIX). *But*, SCO has substantially changed its 5.3.2 UNIX so that it largely no longer resemble AT&T's version, whether it be the kernel, libraries, or utilitites. This is true at the source code level, and in many cases in a functional level as well. AT&T's UNIX System V release 4.0 has a i386 version that will run on a generic 386 PC/AT clone. I don't know whether 5.4.0 is commercially available yet. -Ti -- Ti Kan \\\ vorsprung durch technik! \\\ Internet: ti@altos.com /// \\\ UUCP: ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!ti ////////\