From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 22 00:48:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA23552 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:48:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA23544 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:48:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA03878; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:45:24 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id RAA26764; Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:15:19 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970822171519.25232@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:15:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sean Eric Fagan Cc: softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCO announced SysVr5 References: <199708220544.WAA05583@kithrup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199708220544.WAA05583@kithrup.com>; from Sean Eric Fagan on Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 10:44:42PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 10:44:42PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: >> By the way, Sean, didn't you used to work for the SCO Bozos? I seem to >> remember some nasty three-way arguments between you, me, and Terry >> Lambert a number of years ago, when Usenet ruled the earth. ;^) > > Yes, I used to work for SCO, and I would again, if they were doing OS > development in Santa Cruz (which they're not, btw). > > I had problems with some parts of it, but, all in all, I liked the OS. > Their 3.2 (aka 3.2.0 and 3.2.1, prior to 3.2v2) was not very good, but that > was largely due to them needing (for market reasons) to get a SysVr3.2 > product out *NOW*. 3.2v2 was significantly better. > > I think the SCO OSes were much maligned. I do admit, I really liked > Xenix/386 -- it ran X in 4MBytes, for crying out loud! Stable, fast, and > small. Wonderful system. (And I did my first "device driver" for that -- > /dev/fd, character special nodes that essentially did a dup of the file > descriptor corresponding to the minor number.) In many ways, I liked XENIX too. It was a well rounded system for its day. And it ran in 1.5 MB, for crying out loud! Mind you, with that kind of memory, that's what you'd probably do. The German Federal Railways run a network of the machines (now updated to UNIX, I believe) for ticket sales. The only problem was that they didn't keep XENIX up to date, and it was sadly dated even in the early 90s. Greg