Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!uvaarpa!virginia!uvacs!edison!toylnd!dca From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's Message-ID: <192@toylnd.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 87 05:57:58 GMT References: <9691@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <18017@clyde.ATT.COM> <997@bakerst.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Dave & Anne in Charlottesville, VA Lines: 42 > I believe that, if you check again, you'll find that the UNIX pc > does not, in fact, run SVR3. It doesn't run real SVR2, either. > It runs a sort of advanced form of SVR1. The latest version of > the UNIX pc's UNIX is 3.51 - but that 3 doesn't relate to the 3 > in SVR3. Enough speculation. According to my User Manual Vol II (and I quote). "Version 3.5 UNIX software passes SVVS for System V Release 2" The are a number of system maintenance commands in Rel 2 that the Unix PC doesn't have. As I don't have them I can't really speculate on what use they might be. More important is what user commands it supports and library routines it may be missing. Under user commands some of the commands don't support options available in Rel 2 I'm not going to try to exhaustively list them. The commands missing entirely, however, are: acctom, at, bs, calender, ct, ctrace, efl, f77, fsplit, gdev, ged, graph, graphics, greek, hpio, machid, mailx, news, nscstat, nsctorje, nusend, pg, ratfor, rjestat, sag, sar, send, sno, stat, stlogin, ststat, timex, toc, tplot, tput, trenter, troff, osend. System calls: No missing calls. Library calls: Basically, no fortran library. Missing from the c library: x25alnk, x25clnk, x25hlnk, x25ipvc Missing from the specialized libraries: ldgetname, plot This is a condensation of the rather exhaustive list given the front of the User's Manual vol II. Yes there are many differences between the Unix PC software and that in Rel 2. Do these differences cause problems with software meant for Rel 2? Not that I've run across. That's what's important isn't it. The rest is just picking nits. As for the missing user commands I haven't particularly missed them either. David Albrecht