ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) (11/07/90)
Could someone clarify what the history of V.3 on the 386 is? I know about the early stuff (AT&T arranges with Intel for V.3 on the 386. Intel in turn turns to Interactive for large parts of this project). I know about AT&T, Microsoft, and Interactive doing stuff for Xenix compatibility, with AT&T and Microsoft dealing with 386 Xenix compatibility, and Microsoft and Interactive dealing with 286 binary compatibility. What happened after this? How do AT&T, Interactive, Intel, SCO, Microsoft, ESIX, Microport, and whomever I am missing fit in now? Are they all pretty much the same kernel with the various vendors distinguishing themselves via what drivers they support and what utilities or extras they've added? How do new versions propogate. For example, if AT&T came out with System V.5 on the 3B2, which vendors would get the 3B2 sources and port these to the 386, and which would wait for someone else to do the port and get it from them? Tim Smith