sdyer@bbn-unix.arpa (02/26/83)
From: Steve Dyer <sdyer@bbn-unix.arpa> Now that Radio Shack has officially announced their version of XENIX for their Model 16, I'd like to hear from people who've used it. In particular, I'm wondering how "good" the port is--what the address space/user is, what kind of memory management they use, and how invisible the multi-tasking is. I've used a 68000 port where VI "dies" if a C compilation goes on in the background; on the other hand, the ONYX Z8000 system I used several years ago gave a pretty good emulation of a standard PDP-11/70 running V7--I never was unduly reminded that this was a much less powerful system. Also, I'd like to know whether Tandy is providing an entire UNIX binary system, or following the despicable practice of unbundling certain essentials (such as the C compiler) and changing separately for them. /Steve Dyer