bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (06/19/83)
A recent infoworld had a front page article on a new system called uNETix which proported to be a V7 compatible system for the IBM-PC. The cruncher is they are selling it for $99 US funds. The owners claim this is a "loss leader" to attract attention to the their company and other software. Questions if you do see it: 1) How complete is the implementation? Is it really v7 or what? Does it lack uucp like Coherent? 2) How does it compare to Coherent and Xenix? In particular, how long does it take to compile a one line C program, and how long does it take (real time) to do two of these compiles at the same time in the background. 3) Will this company continue to be around? -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304
SJOBRG.ANDY%MIT-OZ%mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (06/24/83)
golly, last time i heard of xenix running on >anything< commercial, it was on an 8086 on an altos system.
berry@fortune.UUCP (06/25/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-249100:fortune:11600022:000:108 fortune!berry Jun 24 19:14:00 1983 It is now the os of choice for several z8000 systems, among them the Ithaca Intersystems 16 bitters. (sic)
ron%brl-bmd@sri-unix.UUCP (06/27/83)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@brl-bmd> Last time I saw it Xenix was not running on the IBM-PC. Has that changed? At the San Diego UNIX meeting, they had it running on a 68000 card inside the PC box (that's cheating, although an interesting idea). -Ron