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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!geac!r-node!zooid!ross
- From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:00:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.110046.10391@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >Face it, folks. The world is moving towards POSIX and other standards
- >more every day. With this in mind, it just doesn't make sense to
- >choose a bastardized SVR3-wannabe for new installations.
-
- And to use a bastardized SVR3 POSIX-wannabe instead? Even if I thought
- SCO Xenix was dead, SCO Unix would be very low on my list of alternatives.
-
- >The falling price of hardware has made all but irrelevant the
- >consideration that Xenix runs in less RAM and takes less CPU horsepower
- >than Unix.
-
- Some people still have have limited budgets.
-
- >Xenix no longer has any real reason to exist, except for the people that
- >have an existing Xenix installation.
-
- For running a Public Access Unix site I can't really think of a
- better alternative. Reliability and more efficient use of CPU,
- RAM and disk space are more important issues than the latest
- features when all you're doing is news, 24 hours a day, 7 days
- a week.
-
- Ross Ridge
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