richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) (02/27/89)
[ AutoCAD on XENIX ] I just read that in Bulletin Board Press service. The beauty of it is, it appears to run faster on XENIX than DOS. Probably has something to do with 32 bit code and larger memory. Anyway here is the article. This 'reprint' is without permission (the eletronic magazine is free though), so I hope this won't spoil my chance to get into that beatiful place up in the sky later on :-) --------------------------- AUTOCAD PORTED TO SCO XENIX --------------------------- (BPS) -- The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO) and Autodesk Inc. said that AutoCAD, a PC-based CAD package from Autodesk, soon will be available for PC- based workstations running the SCO XENIX 386 Operating System. "The port of AutoCAD to the SCO XENIX 386 environment has resulted in an extremely fast implementation of AutoCAD," said Robert Wenig, manager of Autodesk's AutoCAD porting group. "This dramatic increase in speed means that AutoCAD users can create larger, more complex drawings in a given amount of time. It's like getting the kind of performance increase you'd expect from a major hardware upgrade by simply upgrading your software." Doug Michels, SCO's vice president and co-founder, said, "By migrating to SCO XENIX, current DOS-based AutoCAD users can dramatically increase the performance of their systems, as well as enjoy full access to both XENIX and DOS-based business applications, running concurrently on the same PC workstation. "SCO XENIX also provides LAN connectivity to integrate a CAD operation smoothly into both small and large organizations. "In addition, current SCO XENIX users can now add AutoCAD to Autodesk's Autosolid and other third party CAD packages already available for SCO XENIX 386 to build full feature CAD systems on PC platforms." AutoCAD Release 10 for SCO's XENIX Operating System will be priced at U.S. $3,000. Contact: Autodesk Inc., 2320 Marinship Way, Sausalito, CA 94965; 415/332- 2344. Source: BBS PRESS SERVICE, INC: 913-478-9239 (modem) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard (...!mcvax!neabbs!richard)