Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:2944 comp.unix.microport:1244 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!peregrine!zardoz!conexch!enped From: enped@conexch.UUCP (Eric Pederson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3 (really a put-down of Xenix) Message-ID: <6643@conexch.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 00:28:55 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1585@spdcc.COM> <1090@turnkey.TCC.COM> Reply-To: enped@conexch.UUCP (Eric Pederson) Organization: Consultant's Exchange Lines: 13 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 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. --- Eric Pederson 714-964-3339