khenry@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ken Henry,18 LC,335-5531,3546389) (11/01/89)
From article <170@sean.UUCP>, by news@sean.UUCP (Mike Anderson): > Sorry to come in late on (after) the end of this discussion... > > I manage small and medium size apartments and self-storage > businesses. Each business has an XT-clone running Unix and > a property-management application that I wrote in C. An additional > ..... > ..... > ..... > Well, thats my two cents worth on the death of the 8088. > > Mike Anderson > ...!uunet!sean!mka Unix on an XT? What kind of Unix are you running on the XT. The only one that I know of is Minix, I'm sure there are others but could you tell us what you are running. Thanks, Ken Henry -- | Ken Henry | Disclaimer: "you are getting my opinion for free, so | Weeg Comp Center | INTERNET: khenry@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu | I always say | University of Iowa | BITNET: bptkenpb@uiamvs.bitnet | that you get | Iowa City, IA 52242| Phone: 319-335-5531 or 319-335-5484| what you pay"
news@sean.UUCP (Mike Anderson) (11/01/89)
Sorry to come in late on (after) the end of this discussion... Whatever the technical (de)merits of the 8088 and the PC/XT systems, if they accomplish the task needed, they are cost-effective systems. I manage small and medium size apartments and self-storage businesses. Each business has an XT-clone running Unix and a property-management application that I wrote in C. An additional machine acts as a central node and all machines pass every transaction to "central" via uucp. A tenant payment, invoice, or other transaction can be made at any site and the transaction makes its way to the central site and to the appropriate apartment or self-storage. A daemon at each site integrates remote transactions into the local database automatically. I know about each transaction within seconds at the central node. uucp and mail also provides for quick exchange of documents and communication among the businesses. Additionally, the machines at the self-storage operate a keypad- activated security gate. The gate-operator program reads the tenant databases to allow or deny access based on outstanding balance. Some of the machines have an additional terminal as well. The purpose of describing the application is to show that these machines can do real work. The machines are the cheapest clones: 6, 8, or 10 Mhz 8088 or V20, ST225 drives, internal modem, and an 8087. The application has NOT been optimized for performance using indexes, fixed point, or any other technique. File and record locking is done with semaphores and shared-memory. The machines are fairly reliable, although applications must be carefully written and debugged so as not to crash the OS. Some redundancy and audit measures are needed to recover from lost transmissions and hardware failures of various types. Because of budget constraints, I could not automate this process without these cheap clones. Operation and control of these business is unthinkable without this automation. Well, thats my two cents worth on the death of the 8088. Mike Anderson ..!uunet!sean!mka
pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) (11/01/89)
khenry@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ken Henry) writes: >Unix on an XT? What kind of Unix are you running on the XT. The >only one that I know of is Minix, I'm sure there are others but >could you tell us what you are running. Well, there used to be a version of SCO Xenix for the 8086/8088. Even now, lots of tools that come with SCO Xenix 386 are compiled to run on an 8088. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : ..!uunet!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 512837
pechter@scr1.ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter) (11/03/89)
In article <144@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> khenry@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Ken Henry,18 LC,335-5531,3546389) writes: >> ...!uunet!sean!mka > >Unix on an XT? What kind of Unix are you running on the XT. The >only one that I know of is Minix, I'm sure there are others but >could you tell us what you are running. > I've got SCO Xenix System V up on an 8086 based AT&T6300. Unfortunately I've been unable to get News v2.11 and rn up on the thing yet. The mail and other functions work fine though. -- Bill Pechter -- Home - 103 Governors Road, Lakewood, NJ 08701 (201)370-0709 Work -- Concurrent Computer Corp., 2 Crescent Pl, MS 172, Oceanport,NJ 07757 Phone -- (201)870-4780 Usenet . . . rutgers!pedsga!tsdiag!scr1!pechter ** MS-DOS is CP/M on steroids, bigger, bulkier and not much better **