uhclem@trsvax.UUCP (08/07/89)
<> B>Well, every 6 months or so, I or someone else will ask about the ever B>impending release (so to speak) of the Tandy 6000 3.2 Xenix Development B>System. Some people out there seem to have gotten their hands on it. B>Others have come close to. I have done neither. The 3.2 development system is available, catalog # 700-3040. The 3.2 configuration kit (kernel link kit) is also available, # 700-3043. You will probably have to have it ordered for you, but both items are still active stock items. Just beat the salesman over the head and get them to look in their magic stock book. B>My biggest need for getting it (before Tandy lets it drop off the face of B>the Earth) is to be able to compile programs with identifiers and #define B>names with signifigance greater than the current 3.1 DS's 6 characters. I hope you mean 7. An option in the 3.2 dev system enables long names (31 characters I think.) B>There are other needs too, like a compiler to support the MMU (not sure) There is no such requirement. We aren't dealing with segments here. The same compiler will work with any process size, assuming the program isn't so complex that the compiler itself runs out of memory. "WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' MEMORY MODELS, MAN!" B>Please, if anyone reading (Tandy maybe?) can tell me what is going B>on with it, and how I might get my hands on a copy (with manuals :-) ) You get replacement pages with the 3.2 DS (it assumes you have 3.0.0 DS and its manuals). In all you get 240 pages or so. I used to know the exact number by heart... B>I would really like to hear from you either here or via email. I would B>also like to know what other back room stuff Tandy has been doing with B>it (xenix - system V I heard someone mention ???). Sorry. There are these lawyer guys, and they have a habit of dropping a pile of paper, which is still residing in a filing cabinet, on your head if you talk about the future. (That's why all our manuals now have to use present tense. :-( ) You see, the Merchies(TM) wanna be able to announce the new products first, so they can put the "right" hype/spin/exaggeration on it/them. "Its Green! It glows in the dark! Its submersible! Its a desert topping!" etc. B>I realize fully that its time has come and gone and that Tandy is to B>be expected to allow the system to fade into the pages of unix B>pioneering history, They have tried everything but dip(TM) to get rid of the 6000s, even buying them back when you buy a Letni(TM) computer. (Then they take the 6000 out back and smash it up to keep it from returning from the grave.) But there are stubborn people out there, who don't seem to want to run Lotus, who don't want to deal with 64K code segments, and don't want to buy another $5,000 worth of new hardware and software. <My opinions, and not that of my employer who is approaching with the filing cabinet now....> "Thank you, Uh Clem." Frank Durda IV @ <trsvax!uhclem> ...decvax!microsoft!trsvax!uhclem ...sys1!hal6000!trsvax!uhclem Letni, Merchie are trademarks of my Golden Retriever. dip is a trademark of Walt Disney Studios.