Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:3011 comp.unix.microport:1315 news.groups:5169 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!ge-rtp!edison!rja From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport,news.groups Subject: Re: new groups for iX86 unix (was: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3) Message-ID: <1608@edison.GE.COM> Date: 17 Aug 88 00:20:19 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1988Aug16.011817.17102@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: GE-Fanuc North America Lines: 29 > In article <728@wb3ffv.UUCP> howardl@wb3ffv.UUCP (Howard Leadmon ) writes: > .... > >comp.unix.i286 General 80286 UNIX discussions > >comp.unix.i386 General 80386 UNIX discussions > >comp.unix.i286.microport For System V/AT > >comp.unix.i386.microport For System V/386 > >comp.unix.i386.ix For IX from Interactive for the 80386 > >comp.unix.i286.xenix For 80286 Xenix > >comp.unix.1386.xenix For 80386 Xenix This is excessive and still fails to address the point that Real Soon Now there won't be a hill of beans worth of difference between Xenix and the AT&T/Intel/interactive Systems/Microport/BellTech System V/386 port. Regular readers will recall that I do support the .i286 and .i386 groups in place of .microport and .xenix though not the bottom 5 groups. It does neatly separate the products based on cpu which is helpful for those of us who have to play with the memory adressing differences between the chips. I have used several different varieties of intel-cpu-based UNIX and find that Xenix 286 and System V/AT are a whole lot more in common in the bugs than the Sys V/AT and Sys V/386 versions are (or Xenix 286 and Xenix 386 for that matter.) Intel cpus aren't brain-damaged, they just act that way. ______________________________________________________________________________ rja@edison.GE.COM or ...uunet!virginia!edison!rja via Internet (preferable) via uucp (if you must) ______________________________________________________________________________ UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T; Xenix is somebody else's tm.