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From: wrp@krebs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Huh?
Message-ID: <199@krebs.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 10:20:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: krebs.199
Posted: Mon Jul  6 10:20:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jul-87 04:34:18 EDT
References: <143@lakesys.UUCP> <141@hobbes.UUCP> <133@ddsw1.UUCP>
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In article <133@ddsw1.UUCP> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
>In article <141@hobbes.UUCP>, root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
>> +---- Steven Goodman writes the following in article <143@lakesys.UUCP> ----
>> |              To be abit more accurate on the naming of Xenix one might call
>> | it:  Xenix System V Release 2.
>> 
>> Does SVID address libraries?  Xenix (By IBM for the AT) has no terminfo
>> (termcap instead), incompatable header files, and a non-System 5 compiling

	I think that the current release of Xenix (SCO 2.2) is much closer
to SysV than you might think.  Terminfo is available.  However I would like
to speak about the reliablity of the sytem.  My machine is up 24 hrs a day,
7 days a week, making a uucp connection at 9600 baud to a nearby machine
twice an hour, with no reliability problems (knock on wood).  I am frequently
talking to two or three machines simultaneously at 9600 baud over direct
and LAN lines, with no lost characters.  With one exception in the compiler,
Xenix does fine with large models (there is a compiler bug incrementing
array indices in structures that is easily written around) and mixed model
programming.

	Xenix has been out for a long time, and is still an evolving product.
The current version is very good. (Although I too wish I had source code
for mail and uucp).

Bill Pearson
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