jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) (02/22/90)
Does anyone know when these two dilectable items will be released from interactive? It shouldn't take too long to get an R4 server up - I sure hope those guys give us the MIT extensions, especially the SHM pixmap/shared memory extension. As to Release 2.2 - I heard about it a while back, but nothing since. What about Upgrade costs? jon
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (02/24/90)
In article <2253@syma.sussex.ac.uk> jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan Meyer) writes: >Does anyone know when these two dilectable items will be released from >interactive? I don't have any real info, however I just thought I would point out that release 2.2 is not SysV.4. It is System V.3.2 with some additional fixes and enhancments (including on-line manual pages and a bindered manual as opposed to the paperback junk (at least that was the rumours that I heard)) . 486/ix (probably release 1.0) is the name for the System V.4 product and from what I understand is not allowed to be released until AT&T releases thier own product. > It shouldn't take too long to get an R4 server up - Maybe, if you only had to support one configuration. Interactive is bound to support most, if not all, of the currently supported X displays or else it will loose alot of customers. So the project will take considerably more time than you think (especially when you add in testing/debugging, beta testing, packaging, manuals & printing, cutting the distribution floppies, etc, etc). Putting out a product is never as simple as it seems. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) (02/26/90)
In article <1990Feb23.210052.6206@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >486/ix (probably release 1.0) is the name for the System V.4 product and from >what I understand is not allowed to be released until AT&T releases thier >own product. A quick note - according to Unix Today!, Interactive has licensed to use the name UNIX on their products, and sometime in March they will be renaming their product line to "Interactive UNIX." Also, an Interactive rep was quoted as saying that the System V Release 4 product would come out sometime in the fall. Thomas V. Frauenhofer ...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!ccird7!tvf *or* ...!attctc!swamps!frau!tvf (tvf@frau, tvf@cci632) "What's a gourmand? I'll tell you, he's a P-I-G pig!" - Justin Wilson
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (02/27/90)
>486/ix (probably release 1.0) is the name for the System V.4 product
If ISC hasn't already instituted a program of drug testing, perhaps they
should start one, with the inventor of that name the first subject.
Does that person, or another ISC employee, have an explanation why they
decided that the first digit of "386/ix" came from the "3" in "System V
Release 3", and not the "3" in "80386"? If not, they probably either:
1) need a large red warning label indicating that "486/ix", its
name nonwithstanding, runs on 386 boxes (AT&T's and Intel's
S5R4 run on them)
or
2) need to explain why it doesn't run on them, if for some
unknown reason it doesn't.