digersj@zooid (Jeff Digers) (03/20/91)
What advantages does SCO UNIX V 386 hold over OS/2 and MS DOS?
cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) (03/21/91)
From article <euB4y3w162w@zooid>, by digersj@zooid (Jeff Digers): > What advantages does SCO UNIX V 386 hold over OS/2 and MS DOS? A truely stable, protected mode (32 bit) operating environment, With X11 Release 4/Motif. Unix comes with appx. 42 billion, jillion useful utilities too. SCO Unix developers stuff can also generate MS-DOS executables (comes with Microsoft C/Codeview). Unix also comes with networking stuff (UUCP at least). I have SCO Developers version (Open Desktop/Developers) Ver. 1.1, its very good. The X server is hot. In addition, I use the SGI IrisVision (24 bit version) and the X server works well with it ( SGI supplied the server (ddx) portion of X). OS/2 does have one nice feature not in Unix - true multi-threading. This is highly useful if you know how to use it. |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |Tom Hite | The views expressed by me | |Manager, Product development | are mine, not necessarily | |CADSI (Computer Aided Design Software Inc. | the views of CADSI. | |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
raney@yertle.Colorado.EDU (Scott Raney) (04/04/91)
The same code under UNIX runs almost twice as fast as under OS/2 on the same system (check out the benchmarks in the magazine Personal Workstation if you don't believe me). So, compiles and links take far less time which means better productivity. Not having to shut down your windowing system to do compiles and links (as is the typical procedure with MS Windows) saves enourmous amounts of time. Of course, you can also run a debugger in a window (which still doesn't work right on Windows). When your program dies, it doesn't take out the whole operating system as is common under Windows (and happens occasionally under OS/2). And afterwards, UNIX apps leave a core file around that one can use to determine what went wrong. Developers using X/Xt/Motif can get all the source code to the libraries (X/Xt source is free), making debugging the weird cases much easier. If it weren't for the greater market presence of MS-Windows, I'd say developing there was strictly for masochists and under-achievers. As for me, I'll continue to develop for SCO UNIX, and wait for the weak framework Windows is built on to collapse under the load. Hopefully when the dust settles, the UNIX market share will be the one to expand. I would personally like to thank Microsoft and IBM for making the Windows and Presentation Manager API's so incompatible, and for playing so many games with the positioning of OS/2. Maybe the stuff I'm working on may be worth something someday. Of course, I realize it may be a long wait 8^) Scott Raney -- ====================================================================== Scott Raney No other person or organization raney@boulder.colorado.edu can be held responsible for my (303)499-9855 opinions or actions