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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.192942.11349@crd.ge.com>
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- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:29:42 GMT
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- In article <2B668E09.296B@telly.on.ca>, evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
-
- | There has been a pretty big leap in IHV support between Release 4.0 and
- | 4.2. This is the first release from USL that includes built-in support for
- | CD-ROMs, token ring and NE2000-compatible network cards (amongst other
- | things).
-
- But DOS under UNIX no longer works? Several people have posted saying
- that's not available yet.
- |
- | As from support for third parties, there is a gap but it is narrowing.
- | Softening the blow is the fact that in many instances, "SCO" drivers
- | work fine on R4 systems, especially for intelligent serial cards. How
- | many R4 drivers work under SCO?
-
- I confess that Dell V.4 will run at least two Xenix binaries which
- don't run under SCO UNIX. Had to do with shared memory, I beleive, but I
- recompiled and the problem went away so it's a trivial point. If it was
- a commercial package with no source I'd be upset, of course.
- | There are also a small (but growing) list of drivers written for R4 that
- | aren't available for SCO, mostly done on the net. SAS and XFree86 are
- | two examples. Thomas Roell, author of (possibly) the best X server
- | available on Intel UNIX, explicitly prohibits the use of his code on SCO.
-
- SAS uses stuff not available or needed on V.3, so that's not really a
- shortcoming, and the Xfree problem is political rather than technical, I
- believe a number of people have run it anyway, although the new ODT
- driver has a few things Xfree doesn't.
-
- | There are sometimes reasons to pick SCO over R4. The points mentioned
- | above aren't even minor factors anymore.
-
- Truth. The major reasons I use it are PPP and cross compile. And
- supposedly the realtime kernel will be shipping soon, and that will be
- nice for our industrial control applications.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- A terible poker player can have a great hand,
- A obnoxious fool can have a good idea.
- Both are winners, regardless of who has them.
-
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