Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:3029 comp.unix.microport:1330 news.groups:5181 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport,news.groups Subject: Re: new groups for iX86 unix (was: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3) Message-ID: <55@volition.dec.com> Date: 18 Aug 88 20:42:00 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1988Aug16.011817.17102@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <593@morticia.cme-durer.ARPA> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 36 In <593@morticia.cme-durer.ARPA> wallace@cme-durer.ARPA (Evan Wallace) writes: # Also in reference to comments by a previous poster about newsgroups # named after products i286,i386 and unix are all product names as # well! T'was I. Very good point. I'll change the way I phrase that in the future. My experience with various brands of UNIX(tm) for the 286 and 386 tells me that there is basically Xenix and everybody else. All non-Xenix 286 products are basically similar, as are all non-Xenix 386 products. Yeah, you can yell about details, but if someone wants to know how to directly map CGA video memory in Bell Tech 386, chances are good that an answer from an ISC expert will do the job. UNIX System V release 4 is coming soon. This is due to include more stuff from Berkeley, as well as new things from AT&T. I understand that Xenix/386 is already system-call compatible with UNIX V.3/386 (from ISC, Bell Tech, and Microport); I am expecting UNIX V.4/386 to be more or less cause the merge of Xenix and V/386 -- at least from a functional standpoint. On this basis, I think that two newsgroups, comp.unix.sysv.i286 and comp.unix.sysv.i386 will divide the traffic according to the interests of the people who would be reading it. There would be no cause for cross-posting. Both groups should be moderated. The old groups, comp.unix.xenix and comp.unix.microport should be destroyed in favor of these new groups. I am still waiting for someone to give any reason -- even a flimsy reason -- why this separation is not a good idea. -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013