wanted: UNIX or clone

[Geraldo Veiga]

In article <281ECF1C.1D46 at telly.on.ca> evan at telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

> Rick Richardson posted (July 31, 1990) an article on the
>incompatabilities between the console ioctl values of the major 386 UNIX
>vendors. ESIX's values matched the AT&T release exactly, while both ISC
>and SCO strayed (in different ways).

Could anyone that saved a copy of this article repost it (or mail it to 
me)?

>The best way to check compatability, regardless of what platform you're
>buying from, is to go to a knowledgable vendor/dealer who has pre-tested
>what they're selling you. That was always important for hardware, it's
>also often important for software too.

Not if you are buying an inexpensive, high-volume product.  This should
be the case with general purpose word processors, spreadsheets etc.
I wish I could buy them from perfectly ignorant dealers.   This is
the case with hardware in the PC clone world.  Your favorite computer
clone-maker down the street sells machines that work with very minimal
support from their part.  Of course, multi-user systems and 
some specialized applications are a different story entirely, even
under DOS.

>That proponents of ISC and/or SCO would say that only their platforms will
>properly run 386 UNIX software is no more than marketing hype at best and
>scare tactics at worst. 

Well, they have numbers on their side.  It would be crazy for a 386
software developer not to support SCO, regardless of how much they
deviate from the standard UNIX 386.