Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!german From: german@uiucuxc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Xenix Pricing Message-ID: <21900004@uiucuxc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 16:31:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21900004 Posted: Fri Oct 12 16:31:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 07:04:07 EDT References: <12785@sri-arpa.UUCP> Lines: 36 Nf-ID: #R:sri-arpa:-1278500:uiucuxc:21900004:000:1399 Nf-From: uiucuxc!german Oct 12 15:31:00 1984 Here's the scoop off IBM's Programming Announcement: XENIX Operating System 395.00 XENIX Software Development System 455.00 XENIX Text Formatting System 145.00 Total 995.00 XENIX Operating System Highlights: Supports 3 Mb of memory, multi-user, multi-tasking, dynamic memory managment via 80286 chip, hierachical file system, two command interfaces (bourne and visual shells), 3 editors (vi, ed, and sed), file-sharing protection and access control, background processes, co-residence with IBM PC DOS, file transfer between DOS and XENIX, support for the 80287 math coprocessor, several Berkeley extensions (more, termcap, curses). XENIX Software Development System Highlights: C compiler (output for DOS or XENIX), assembler, run-time library, lint, make, sccs, adb, yacc, several popular Berkeley extensions (strings, xstr, csh) XENIX Text Formatting System Hightlights: mm, eqn, tbl, spell, vi and ed, numerous technical document formatting tools, and several popular Berkeley extensions (diction, explain and style) The following compliers have been announced for XENIX: Fortran 595.00 Pascal 595.00 Cobol 1250.00 Basic 195.00 C 595.00 (NOTE: this version is optimized for the 68000) The above compilers maybe only for the System 9000 machines as they came from a response to a question on that machine rahter than the PC/AT. Greg German pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!german