calprof@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (08/18/87)
I recently noticed an article related to PC/IX, a SYSIII UNIX distributed by IBM in 1984. I sent an e-mail response to the sender with the answer to his question. (Just in case my mail gets returned - the "*" is used by the PC/IX assembler for 8-bit operands, whereas the "#" is for 16-bit operands.) My question is, is PC/IX still being supported in any fashion? I tried several calls to IBM concerning it but the response was basically: "What's PC/IX?". It was ported for IBM by a company called INTERACTIVE Systems Corp. Are they still in existence? Did they ever provide "vi" for PC/IX? Any help would be appreciated. I do have a copy of PC/IX by the way, found at a local used computer store, unopened with full documentation. I've got it running on my XT and frankly I'm very impressed and pleased with it. The response on the XT is really not that bad (better than MINIX I'm sorry to say, but don't get me wrong, I have the greatest regard for Tanenbaum and his work on MINIX) and I imagine the performance on an AT would be that much more satisfactory. Thanks for any leads or comments about PC/IX, Tony Travlos calprof@violet
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (08/19/87)
I don't know if anyone else in the world runs it, but we have (at least)
two copies running here. I have one on an XT at home and one of my
coworkers has it running on an AT. It seems to be a complete SysIII port
of the PDP11 version.
Because of the limitations on memory space, this is not the o/s to use
for development of large systems. However, small programs, all of the
utilities, etc, work just fine. It makes a nice cheap mail and uucp
server and is *dead solid* reliable, which is why we still run it. My
friend here has microport and xenix, but has had too many reliability
problems with them.
If you want to get in touch with him, he's at:
benway!benway.uucp
/or/ ...!uunet!steinmetz!benway!benway
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