rshwake@irs3.UUCP (rshwake) (06/08/88)
Bill Kennedy (ssbn!bill) was kind enough to respond to my original inquiry. Briefly, he reports that it both works, and works BETTER than Microport's 386 UNIX. Now, if only something could be done about the PRICE of the package. If the numbers quoted in the recent UNIX/World article are any indication, we can expect to pay some big bucks for Runtime/Development/Documentation and DOS-under-UNIX. Xenix is just as bad, and Microport is moving out of the low-cost UNIX market, to judge from their latest price list. Runtime under SimulTask, including HDB ran to only $199 or so. In a recent posting, Bill suggests that the .microport group could serve as a proper forum for ALL the UNIX/386 implementations. Given the time and bandwidth involved just to start .microport (as an offshoot of .xenix), I'll second that notion. A name change might be in order, but even lacking that, we got nowhere else to go. :-) Ray Shwake R/S/X Technical Services