Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!fungus.dec.com!paine From: paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: SCO Unix vs ICS vs Xenix Message-ID: <8909281749.AA03817@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 28 Sep 89 17:49:19 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 30 I have contacted several people on private personal opinion on comparing between Xenix and SCO UNIX on performance and price. Now I am trying to find out between SCO Unix and ICS 386/xi 2.0+. I am told that SCO Unix is slower or more clumsy than Xenix and couple of SCO Unix owners are so UNempressing with SCO Unix performance. Some said the kernel is too big and using too much memory that don't allow enough memory for X-sight. I have the latest verison Xenix and ICS 386/ix and they are different on size and performance but I am curious about SCO Unix vs ICS 386/ix. One person is saying that ICS 386/ix is better product than new SCO Unix but I can not tell if he already test with 386/ix. I am still checking on upgrade cost. I think upgrade cost could be too expensive that this is rather close to distributor's price on buying brand new SCO Unix. There are two difference choice, 2 users and unlimited users. I think 2 users product is a rip off because I have past experience with 2 users version. If I add mouse in one port or run another virtual tty (this was old ICS 1.06), it screws up the whole system but I have not tried the latest version on 2 users product. SCO Product Support have improved quiet a bit over a year ago and I am very please with fast response and I think SCO is good reputation as being old and stable company on Unix for micros. Major disadvantage is really high prices. ICS is agressive company with good effortable discount on Unix close to real System V standard but is rather flaky on fixing products. willy p.s. This is my own opinion and I am running Xenix/386 and ICS at home. My company has nothing to do with these at all......