ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) (05/04/88)
I would appreciate e-mail feedback on the issues described below. If any responses having general interest are received, I will summarize and post these. THE PROBLEM: I traded my ATT-6300 (8086) for an ATT-6310 (80286). My SCO XENIX Sys V 2.0 does not run on the 6310. SCO wants $300 for the upgrade (just the operating system). THE CHOICES: Stick with MSDOS. Buy the SCO upgrade. Buy the Microport AT package (about 470). THE QUESTIONS: Can 8086 SCO XENIX be made to run on an AT clone? How does Microport compare with SCO XENIX? I like the SCO XENIX multi-screen capability; does Microport have it? TROFF in the SCO package as about as useful as "teats on a boar hog." Microport has DITROFF; does it work? How close are the development tools under Microport to those found in XENIX and UCB systems? Microport has a 286 bridge to MSDOS. Does it work? Does SCO have anything similar coming along? I have grown used to the Korn shell from the MKS Toolkit. SCO does not have it. Does Microport? How does support compare? It has taken me six weeks to get replacement disks from SCO. WHAT I DO WITH THE SYSTEM: Software development (C, assembler) for a database used here, at Berkeley, and several other places. This runs under MSDOS, 2.9 BSD, 4.3 BSD, ULTRIX, etc. Text processing involving camera-ready output. Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis 916-752-1636/0776 cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu