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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!mudos!mju
- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <Btuuzv.Btx@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:57:31 GMT
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1188@consult.UUCP>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1188@consult.UUCP> bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP ) writes:
- >Many new installations (no Unix/Xenix in place) are non-technical users
- >and DO NOT require POSIX and the other "lack of standards". And
-
- They may not need them now, but what do you tell your client when they
- want to run an iBCS2 app on their Xenix system? Standards are good
- for you. Xenix has a place; its place is the same niche that other
- vertical-market OSes like QNX have.
-
- >they definitely do not need any additional overhead, requirements,
- >of sysadmin woos. SCO Xenix for many installations has been and
- >continues to be a very good answer. It is very stable, requires very
- >little onsite technical experience, and just flat runs, and runs....
-
- It's been my experience that SCO Unix just runs and runs and runs,
- too. And SCO Unix has better support from third-party vendors, is
- cleaner, and is easier to administer than Xenix is.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't use Windows. Real men use X.
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
- | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
-