mgb@macs.UUCP (Michael Branton) (12/24/87)
The rainbow Venix certainly sounds interesting. The price is impressive too ! What manner of C compiler comes with it ? How "complete" a Unix implementation is it ? Has anyone thought about porting Minix to the rainbow ? -- -mgb ...ihnp4!codas!ki4pv!macs!mgb : UUCP
campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) (12/24/87)
In article <8712231722.AA00372@macs.UUCP> mgb@macs.UUCP (Michael Branton) writes:
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<> The rainbow Venix certainly sounds interesting. The price
<>is impressive too ! What manner of C compiler comes with it ?
<>How "complete" a Unix implementation is it ?
VENIX/Rainbow is a complete V7 UNIX. It comes with everything you expect
in V7 UNIX, with the possible exception of troff (you do get nroff, though).
The C compiler is the usual pcc-based compiler. It generates pretty good
code.
Hoping this will answer all the "How complete is it" and "What's included"
questions, here's a list of most of the things in /bin, /usr/bin, and
/usr/local/bin on our development system -- all of this is either included
with VENIX or (for the more obscure items) available on request:
Erase colndx egrep ln plot rnotroff tr
Pnews comm enable login postnews rotate true
Rnmail compress eplot look pplot ruusend tsort
STTY cp erase lorder pr sc tty
[ cpp erspc lp prep sed umodem
ac crc erstek lpr primes setscreen umount
access crypt ex lpstop printenv sh uncompress
adb csh expose ls prof shar uniq
apropos cu expr lsc ps since unshar
ar cunbatch false lscreen pscreen size untarmail
as cut fcheck m4 ptx sleep uucp
at date fgrep mail pwd smail uudecode
atob dc file make quot sort uuencode
awk dd find man ranlib spell uulog
basename decrypt format mc rcbook.n spline uulookup
basic del fsck mesg rcbook.t split uuname
bc deroff gets mkdir rcextract sscreen uupath
bdays df graph more rcindex stamp uupoll
behead diff grep mount rcintro strings uusend
bs diffc help mv rckeep strip uusnap
btoa disable hplot ncheck rckeepnew stty uux
cal diskcopy ice neqn rcnew.n su vax
calendar dos install newgrp rcnew.t sum vi
calls doscopy iplot newsclean rcnroff suspend view
cat dosdel join newsetup rcshow sync vnews
cb dosdir jove newsgroups rcsit tabs vpathalias
cc dosren kermit nice rctypeset tail wc
cdecl dostype kill nm readnews tar which
cf dplot l nohup restor tarmail who
checkeq ds lbl nroff resume tbl write
checknews dtree ld od revgrep tee x10
chgrp du le page rm tek xargs
chmod dump less passwd rmail test xtx
chown echo lex paste rmdir time yacc
cmp ed lint patch rn tk zcat
col edit lmail pathalias rnews touch
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Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
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campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) (12/25/87)
In article <1265@vu-vlsi.UUCP> 164485913@excalibur.UUCP (Mark Schaffer) writes:
<>How much does VENIX/rainbow cost?
$800.00.
<>Do they make a PC/xt version?
Yes, but they've discontinued the V7-based PC/XT VENIX and now only sell
the System V based version. VENIX/Rainbow is V7-based.
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Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846