NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/unix/xenix/sco/2917

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From: [e-mail] (David W. Millians)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: HELP for a beginner- new machine needed, compiler wanted, etc.
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Date: 14 Sep 92 03:05:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep14.030505.2123
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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Hope this doesn't cut off the last line- it's been goofy lately.
Hi. I just started a new job recently, where I'm running a special
Xenix-based package by a company called Edulog. I've used Unix
before, but never maintained the system, so I may have a few questions
about maintaining it- later.
Today, I only have a few rudimentary questions.
1) Is this the main traffic group for SCO-Xenix discussion? What other
groups are there dealing with it?
2) What is the current version of it? I have 2.3.1 on my server.
As I understand it, SCO has moved to making straight Unix, and Xenix
is kind of a lame duck.
3) My hard drive is too small for the new versions of the software and
I need to upgrade the HD at least, and would like to get a 486/33 or
better. ANy advice? If it is a lame duck, this is VERY important...
I'm considering a Northgate system...
Or, if I have to get just the HD to stick in my Compaq 386/20e, which
would you recommend that works well with Xenix? Right now I have only
a 100 me g drive in there...
4) I have found no rudimentary C compiler on the server. There is nobody
there who knows anything about the machine, of course. Does it come
with such a thing? Or am I going to have to get a Gnu compiler?

--
normally, mild-mannered David W. (Stimpy) Millians, [e-mail]
but now, "Yes, dear"-Man. Able to fix sinks, move boxes and write thank you