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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Sco Xenix or Unix - which to program for?
- Message-ID: <id.XAOS.C53@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Aug24.202843.5696@primerd.prime.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:56:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug24.202843.5696@primerd.prime.com> jtb@hacker.Prime.COM writes:
- > 3) What is the difference between the two? Is SCO Unix a replacement
- > for SCO Xenix?
-
- SCO Unix is, as far as programming goes, a superset of SCO Xenix. That is,
- a SCO Xenix program will run on SCO UNIX, but not vice-versa.
-
- > 4) Is there a way to make the code portable for both SCO products? For
- > other Un*xes?
-
- Code for *early* SCO Xenix. Up until SVR3.2 at least 386 UNIX included support
- for Xenix executables (even 286 ones!). I believe V.4 for the 386 does, too.
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