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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
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Reply-To: enped@conexch.UUCP (Eric Pederson)
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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.

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Eric Pederson
714-964-3339