Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!dbb From: dbb@tc.fluke.COM (Dave Bartley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Venix Users? Message-ID: <2439@sputnik.COM> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 11:43:35 EST Article-I.D.: sputnik.2439 Posted: Tue Dec 8 11:43:35 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 11:43:19 EST Sender: news@tc.fluke.COM Lines: 30 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.xenix:1303 comp.os.misc:338 comp.unix.questions:5253 comp.unix.wizards:5921 PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ACCOUNT, as I'm posting this for a friend. Thanks, Dave ------------------------------- The Great OS Search continues ... Still looking for comments on real-time Unix-ish OS's. We've ruled out QNX (C compiler small model only; not close to Unix) and Regulus (only one comment, and that was a flame). What about Venix? I briefly used a version for the PC in 1983, and it seemed as reasonable as Unix on an IBM XT could. Is it worth looking at today? Venturcom is advertising SVID conformance with a real-time kernel. Also the $600 price (until 12/31/87) is pretty tempting. I do note that comp.unix.venix seems to have evaporated ... Thanks in advance; please reply by mail & I'll post a summary. SEND REPLIES TO: Mark McWiggins ...!uw-beaver!tikal!camco!happym!polari!markm ------- Mark McWiggins ...!uw-beaver!tikal!camco!happym!polari!markm DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong. -- Dave Bartley (dbb@tc.fluke.com), John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA, USA {uw-beaver,lbl-csam,hplsla,ssc-vax,microsoft,sun,allegra,...}!fluke!dbb