Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:35:11 +0500 (GMT+0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comparing FreeBSD and other OSs Message-ID: <199603071235.RAA12777@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199603071207.NAA27433@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 7, 96 01:04:07 pm
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> >> The current FreeBSD/Linux comparison is only part of a larger
> >> question: which operating system should I install on my PC?
> >> Stretching the term "Operating System" to include program loaders like
> >> DOS, we have at least the following choices on standard PC hardware:
> >>
> > [...]
> >> Xenix
> > [...]
> >>
> >> Comments? Flames?
> >
> > IMHO Xenix means two choises, not one:
> >
> > Xenix 286
> > Xenix 386
> >
> > Xenix 386 is completely dead (killed by SCO Unix). I can suggest only
> > one use for it: it would work even in 1.5M of memory. And I see no
> > reason to run Xenix 286 on any machine with {>2}86 CPU.
>
> Yes, I know about the different kinds of Xenix. In fact, the 386
> version I have is called Xenix System V. To the best of my knowledge,
AFAIK both of them are Xenix System V. May be "386" is omited now because
Xenix 286 was discontinued.
> it is still selling well. If it has been discontinued, it was
> relatively recently (in the last 12 months).
It's a surprize for me! I throught that it has been discontinued near
1992.
-SB
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