Microsoft Word & (SCO) Unix 3.2

Tom Neff tneff at bfmny0.UUCP
Sat Sep 2 08:10:12 AEST 1989


In article <432 at zeus.hf.intel.com> hays at farside.UUCP (Kirk Hays) writes:
>In article <5890 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>    [long discussion about using XENIX Intel UDI tools under SYSV, pointing
>     out that the emulator allocates 64K segments for every memory request,
>     causing system performance degradation]
>...Also, it might help, in the long run, to call your Intel sales office
>and say that you want UNIX native versions of these tools available
>(you've probably already done this, right?)

There seems to be some question about how "official" its status is, but
the RMK386 Developers Kit (for Unix V/386) comes with an OMF loader and
UDI emulator called UNXUDI, and brother, NOTHING touches it for
performance.  Compiles and links run lightning fast.  Using the DOS
hosted tools for everything is such a royal pain I've completely given
it up.  The groaning latency required to get all of VP/ix's little
doohickies up and running from the UNIX shell will drive you nuts.  And
there are limitations on where and how VP/ix will work, as we all know
and rejoice. :-)

I don't think this works for the 286 tools, but I could be wrong.  There
may be something else that does.  I'm hopeful that having bought Bell
Tech, Intel will see the light and come on board to UNIX as a fully
hosted environment for all tools.

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