hamilton@harrison.cs.unc.edu (Johnny Hamilton) (02/22/89)
I need help in chosing the correct version of Xenix.
Don't let me make any mistakes that you may have made --
what should I get (SCO Xenix,Microport, or what??)
SYSTEM: IBM PS/2 Model 50/z
- 3.5" (1.44mb) diskette drive
- Intel 80286 processor
- 3MB core (1MB motherboard, 2MB XMA Adapter)
- 300/1200 Baud Internal Modem
- 60MB Hard Drive
What version of Xenix should I buy? I will be using the
machine to log in at work which is a Unix environment --
primarily 4.3BSD and Sun OS/[3-4].
My objective is to login from home, copy any files I need
to work on to my system at home, work in multiple windows
(What windowing system?? -- Xwindows for a PC?? Is there such
an animal??) and then copy files back across.
Options I would like to have in an OS: (Muli-tasking is a default)
1. Offers or promots some type of windowing system such as X-Windows
or as the Suns do with Suntools.
2. Provide good documentation to the OS and perhaps telephonic
support.
3. Able to read/run dos or OS/2 programs and files.
4. Provide C compiler with some type of debugger as in "dbxtool"
The mandatory list is that I have:
1. The windowing environment.
2. That the OS provides (or the Company have for sale) a C compiler
and perhaps a good window debugger as in Codview or dbxtool
Thank you very much,
Johnny Hamilton
hamilton@cs.unc.edudavidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (02/24/89)
In article <6902@thorin.cs.unc.edu> hamilton@harrison.cs.unc.edu (Johnny Hamilton) writes: | SYSTEM: IBM PS/2 Model 50/z | - 3.5" (1.44mb) diskette drive | - Intel 80286 processor == you will really wish for the 386, not for speed but for the ability == to run DOS programs. | - 3MB core (1MB motherboard, 2MB XMA Adapter) | - 300/1200 Baud Internal Modem == you're not going to like this, either | - 60MB Hard Drive | Options I would like to have in an OS: (Muli-tasking is a default) | 1. Offers or promots some type of windowing system such as X-Windows | or as the Suns do with Suntools. | 2. Provide good documentation to the OS and perhaps telephonic | support. == I don't know of any good documentation, Xenix is somewhat less terse == than MicroPort, the last Interactive docs I saw were "how to use" == flavor, rather than "how it works." | 3. Able to read/run dos or OS/2 programs and files. == As far as I know you can't run OS/2 progs under *any* UNIX. | 4. Provide C compiler with some type of debugger as in "dbxtool" == what you get is 'sdb.' "sdb, you're no CodeView." | The mandatory list is that I have: | 1. The windowing environment. | 2. That the OS provides (or the Company have for sale) a C compiler | and perhaps a good window debugger as in Codview or dbxtool Honestly, why don't you buy PC-SLIP and X-windows for your PC, run DOS, and use QuickC or MSC with CodeView? If you need OS/2 you can't run it under UNIX, and a 286 only runs well behaved DOS programs under UNIX, since an ill-behaved program can crash the system (also OS/2). I love UNIX of many flavors, but you seem to have a better fit with DOS at this time. Xenix is slightly a better fit than other flavors of UNIX because its C compiler will produce DOS executables directly. The SCO3.2 version (about 3Q89) will produce OS/2 executables, too, but I don't know if they're 'real' OS/2, or the so-called 'family model' which will run on either DOS or OS/2. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me