Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:3027 comp.unix.microport:1329 Path: utzoo!lsuc!mnetor!utgpu!woods From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3 (really a put-down of Xenix) Summary: I'm not alone, I see. Message-ID: <1988Aug10.204710.27112@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: 11 Aug 88 00:47:10 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1585@spdcc.COM> <1090@turnkey.TCC.COM> <6643@conexch.UUCP> Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronot.EDU (Greg Woods) Organization: G. A. W. Constulting Lines: 38 Checksum: 16678 In article <6643@conexch.UUCP> enped@conexch.UUCP (Eric Pederson) writes: >We haven't had as much luck with SCO Xenix. I think our troubles may be due to >poor SVID IPC support in the 2.1 Xenix for the 386. Our Alcatel 386 (with 8 >meg of RAM, and a 150 meg ESDI drive) crashed every day at least once under >a user load of 10 or less (on intelligent serial ports). The applications >used were very IPC oriented. We got page fault-type kernel panics with >regularity and other bizzare panics that SCO support didn't even know existed. Now, that's more like it. I knew someone else must have been trying to "use" the system to the extent we did. Unfortunately, I don't think it is just the IPC stuff to be blamed. >Now we run Bell Tech SysV/386 and have had no crashes whatsoever. I miss >the splendid system admin stuff Xenix had and the nice documentation, but >we needed something that worked. I don't think you're missing much. The new AT&T documentation has MUCH improved guides, and is more "bug" free. The on-line help is a great boon, though it could be more complete. The only thing I miss is the ring-binders. Much "easier" to use than softcover books. I find the sysadm stuff better than the Xenix junk, and I even use sysadm once and a while. Most of the Xenix scripts had weird problems, especially if you tried anything that wasn't expected. (I'm not sure if Bell Tech has the same stuff as 386/ix, but I assume it does.) >--- >Eric Pederson >714-964-3339 -- Greg Woods. UUCP: utgpu!woods, utgpu!{ontmoh, ontmoh!ixpierre}!woods VOICE: (416) 242-7572 [h] LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada