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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.135205.6998@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:52:05 GMT
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- In article <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- | Well, that's good advice even if Xenix is going to be supported
- | forever. I'm sure I'll get flamed for this -- especially in the SCO
- | Xenix newsgroup -- but I don't think Xenix is an appropriate product
- | for new installations anymore. SCO should definitely keep supporting
-
- Xenix has been a special applications package for some time now. For
- small systems there is no other commercial UNIX which will perform
- useful work in 2MB, and when battery life is vital using less memory is
- important. Until recently SCO UNIX was not useful in certain security
- applications, where the lowest level of security still did some password
- validation. Sorry, SCO, if you want your passwords to follow some rules
- you can run it on your internal systems, but we have our rules, and
- those are the ones we pay for. That's finally been fixed in the new
- release of UNIX and ODT.
-
- Xenix is also appropriate when you have Xenix device drivers and no
- UNIX device drivers. Or when the UNIX device drivers don't work and the
- Xenix drivers do. Again, until the latest release, there was that pause
- between boot time and first login, while the password database was
- blessed or some such. Sorry, we have xenix systems which power up on the
- first ring of a modem and can answer on the fourth. Forget UNIX for
- that.
-
- As a general solution I would not tell people to run out and buy Xenix
- over UNIX, but for some applications it still makes sense.
-
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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