Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA From: ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Is System V going down the tube? Message-ID: <12678@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 14:37:29 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12678 Posted: Thu Oct 4 14:37:29 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 22:02:03 EDT Lines: 16 From: Ron NatalieThe reason I suspect that everyone is running Xenix rather than either of the two stock AT&T releases (by the way, I don't trust anything Yates says) is that they are not for micros. They are written for PDP-11's and VAX's. If you were a micro manufacturer, would you go out and do your own unix port of the AT&T code, if you could get one for your processor already from Microsoft. Microsoft is in the business of making micro UNIX ports, AT&T isn't (or if they are, they aren't doing anything yet). I really think that the quality of the different versions was not a major factor. Xenix is a nice product however. I got to stick my nose into Xenix III for the 80286 and was fairly impressed. -Ron