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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 04:48:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.044835.3961@ksmith.uucp>
- 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:
- >In article <9209061131.AA05771@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
- >>So what exactly have you found out there that will work for Unix that won't
- >>work for Xenix?
- >
- >It's not really an issue of "working" or "not working". If you have
- >the source and are willing to hack on it long enough, you can make
- >almost anything work under Xenix. It's just an issue of how much time
- >and effort you're willing to invest.
-
- Of course then again with Xenix or SCO Unix you can often buy the app
- you need shrink-wrap, which requires an even smaller time investment for
- a $500 app. The question is How much MORE time. There are also quite a
- few Publicly available sources that run ONLY on Xenix or SCO. (ecu comes
- to mind, though someone may have ported it by now). So the answer is:
-
- If you like to hack net.source a lot buy the os that the guy who is
- posting the net.source is running. SCO people are generally in business
- to make money. This can be a financial problem.
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