Why's and wherefore's.....

[Stephen Hocking]

In article <2596 at munnari.oz>, muller at munnari.oz (Paul Muller) writes:
> 
> I know this is asking for comp.unix.wizards.flame, but I am rather confused.
> 
>      I have been talking to people in the industry and to collegues over the
> advantages of SCO Xenix vs Microport Sys V (AT/386), which is better, the last
> comment I recvd from a friend (who runs Xenix) was that Microport was CRAP!
> He cited the point that the ttyx drivers are stuffed and that the whole OS is
> a snail! This is rather odd as a conflicting comment suggested that M/Port
> runs rings around Xenix on any PC?!?!

	My experience is (2 Yrs with Xenix 286, 1 1/2 yrs with Uport V/AT)
is that the bugs are simply different. Xenix runs faster with small amounts
of memory (seems to swap less, basically) but Uport overtakes it as the
memory size gets larger. The tty drivers under Uport were stuffed, but that
has been fixed OK with the later releases. I've been using it from 2.2
through 2.4 and the improvement has been immense. With the development
system, the Xenix 386 compilers were pretty sad, but Uport had it right
almost first up. It did frustrate me at first, but at least I dont see
segment fix up over flows....

Xenix has better support for perverse hardware, although Uport has just
added RLL & ESDI support. Mail me Paul, I'm in the same country...

	Stephen

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