[comp.lang.icon] xenix

goer@SOPHIST.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz) (07/13/89)

I wonder if XENIX users reading this group might take a moment to
let a soon-to-be XENIX user know what hardware they are using, and
any tips I might want to know about in using Icon in this environ-
ment.  I'm coming from the BSD 4.3 and MS-DOS worlds, and I'm dread-
fully worried about incompatibilities and other assorted chinks in
the armor of 32-bit extensions to AT busses and XENIX/386.

                                        -Richard L. Goerwitz
                                        goer@sophist.uchicago.edu
                                        rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer

ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence) (07/14/89)

Richard,

I ported ICON to Xenix/386 with no difficulties.  I believe the
configuration files for Xenix/386 are now included with the ICON
distibution.  

My own system is an IBM ps2/80, and the ICON benchmark suite produced
very acceptable results, faster than a Sun 3/160 or any DOS or OS/2
version of ICON on the same machine, including the protected mode DOS
version.  The only ICON feature I did not implement is co-expressions.

If you need the configuration files or other information, let me know.

Ronald Florence                    ...{hsi!aati,rayssd}!mlfarm!ron