How to choose a new 386 UNIX PC...

Jack F. Vogel jackv at turnkey.gryphon.COM
Wed Sep 27 01:07:53 AEST 1989


In article <650 at visdc.UUCP> jiii at visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
>In article <6365 at turnkey.gryphon.COM> jackv at turnkey.gryphon.COM writes:
> [ my earlier comments deleted...]
 
>It turns out, according to UNIX REVIEW, that the version of X11.3
>provided by SCO for UNIX 3.2 is also the Xsight product licensed from
>Locus.
 
Yes this is correct John in fact we did the actual port of the Xsight
code for the SCO kernel in 2.3.x and 3.2. SCO is great at not making
very visible third party logos and such in their advertisement (Oh, they're
there if you get out the magnifying glass :-}!), witness their advertise-
ment of OpenDesktop, you'd think it was all SCO's work where it is really
a merged effort of SCO, DEC, Ingres, Locus, and perhaps one other company
which slips my mind at the moment. We provide both the X and Merge parts
of the package.

On the subject of X, there are only really three X server ports of any
consequence for the i386 families of Unix, Locus' which is licensed by
both SCO and Bell, Interactive's, and IBM's AIX server. The AIX port was
actually done by IBM's own internal development in a couple of locations.
(Yes I am aware of Enix or whatever it is called these days, but it is
so pathetic that I don't include it :-} ). 

Disclaimer: these are my opinions, not necessarily Locus'.

-- 
Jack F. Vogel			jackv at seas.ucla.edu
AIX Technical Support	              - or -
Locus Computing Corp.		jackv at ifs.umich.edu



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