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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: <1992Sep10.180101.7932@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:01:01 GMT
- References: <9209061131.AA05771@dynamix.com> <Bu6216.8p8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <Bu6216.8p8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
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- | As an example, there are two major public-access Unix systems in the
- | Ann Arbor area. One of them is running on an Altos 68K machine with
- | System III. The other is running on a Sun 2/170 with SunOS 3.2. Now,
- | both machines are of similar vintage, and both are somewhat
- | antiquated. But guess which one is easier to port PD software to?
- | And then, guess which one has more PD software installed on it.
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- I wouldn't consider running any Xenix except 386. The only 286
- compiler which works worth anything is cross compile from UNIX. No
- smiley here!
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- 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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