gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) (08/30/90)
I am considering specifing some 386 boxes with SCO Unix386 for a
project I'm working on but having not worked with IBM-PC's or their
clones, I was wondering about several things.
I'd very much appreciate it if someone could at least answer some of
these questions. I'll post a summary if there is enough interest.
COMPILERS
SCO Unix386 comes with compiler ?
A. Compliance for C:
i. POSIX (yes/no ?)
ii. SYSTEM V (yes/no ?)
B. C++ available ? (yes/no ?)
SCO Unix386 supports the following system calls ?
A. wait(2), wait3()
note: wait3() not wait(3). wait3() returns immediately. Returns zero
if no child process has terminated since this process last
called wait3() else returns value that has pid and exit status
encoded together.
B. fork()
C. execl()
D. ioctl()
DEVICE DRIVERS
Supports drivers for two or four port inteligent serial boards ?
Contains device drivers for what drives ?
Comes with device drivers for psuedo terminals (pty's) ?
UNIX BEHAVIOR
Reboots without assistance ?
Works with which BIOS's (Phenix, AMI, etc) ?
Comes with motif ?
curses ?
Normally, no one will be logged into the system, however, there will
be an applications program always running and writing to the console
(I assume this is possiable on Unix386). If I am correct in assuming
that the OS may somethimes write to the console, is there anyway to
prohibit this (and possiably redirect these messages to a socket, file,
or elsewhere so my application will have access to them) ?
I'm sure I could call SCO and spend hours discussing this but I'd very
much prefer your unbiased answers. Besides, they offered to have a
technical representitive call me but one never did. A recent letter
to them was likewise ignored. Is this typical of their customer support ?
Thanks for reading all of this and I would very much apreciate your reply.
Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370 {mips,pyramid|philabs}!prls!gordon
Signetics in Sunnyvale,Ca (USA)
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