Submission for comp-unix-microport

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Path: tolerant!voder!pyramid!oliveb!amdahl!pacbell!belltec!dar
From: dar at belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Which one:  Interactive, Microport, Xenix?
Summary: Ours, of course.
Message-ID: <324 at belltec.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 89 22:56:18 GMT
References: <2410 at stiatl.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA
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In article <2410 at stiatl.UUCP>, todd at stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman) writes:
> Our company is trying to select a Unix (Sys. V) for 386.  On the
> basis of:
> 
>    SVID compliance
>    Availability of drivers for add-on peripherals
>    Support for X-Windows
>    Ethernet-TCP/IP support
>    Quality of documentation and support
>    3rd party software availability
>    No system call differences with 3B2 and Convergent (shmem(), semctl())
>    Up-to-date curses and terminfo
>    Full complement of uucp utilities
> 
> The system in production will be handling multiple communications
> sessions with modems and a user interface under X-Windows.
> 
> What are your suggestions?


Ours, of course.  Everything is just echoes of the standard AT&T/Intel
release.  Some are very nice echoes (ISC, for example), and others
are not-so-nice.  Note that with us you can run all software written for
Interactive, Microport, *or* SCO Xenix on the 286 and 386.  Plus
you get production X and Ethernet code shipping today, and perfect
compatiblity with 3B2.

With us you also get the very fastest X Window environment in the world,
as well as support for X in a very wide range of display resolutions       
(640 x 480, 1024 x 768, 1024 x 1024, 1280 x 1024, and 1660 x 1200).  Our
X packages support Hercules, Bell Tech Blit lo-res color, high res mono,
high res color, Microfield T8, and Univision's 1660 x 1200 color.  We 
also provide Ethernet and X window on the same board in our "Instant
Workstation" (which also has a mouse port on-board).

- dimitri rotow, bell technologies 800-for-UNIX