Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ll-xn!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!virginia!krebs!wrp 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> Reply-To: wrp@krebs.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: na Organization: University of Va., Charlottesville, VA Lines: 27 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 ...!seismo!virginia!wrp wrp@virginia.BITNET