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- From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.174032.19623@godzilla.quotron.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:40:32 GMT
- References: <9208290845.AA18903@dynamix.com> <BtsG0n.50u@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Sep3.110046.10391@zooid.guild.org>
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- In article <1992Sep3.110046.10391@zooid.guild.org> Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- >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.
- >
-
- I completely agree with Ross. Because of the reliability, size of kernel,
- speed, etc., etc., etc., I still have my XBBS running under Xenix386.
- I have a version running under SVR4 on my 486/50; however, my old 386/20
- ( the Xenix Box ) is online for public access.
-
- Sandy
-
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- > Ross Ridge
- >
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