sort on Xenix 386 large model ?

[Karl Denninger]

In article <186 at carssdf.UUCP> usenet at carssdf.UUCP (UseNet Id.) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if, under the 386 version of xenix the sort has been
>improved to use a sort work area larger than 32K, and to open serveral
>dozen of it's temp files simultaneously for input durring it's merge phase.

I don't know about it's specific behavior, but I do know that it will sort
1MB files without problems (ie: pathalias output :-)

>I am thinking about purchasing SCO Xenix 386 for my system, which includes
>a SCSI disk from Texas Inst if that makes any difference.  (They call it
>the model 1300).  I wonder if I should wait for more improvements, because
>purchasing a new O/S seems to be the only way to get all the updates.

No, you can get either the xnx fix disks, or upgrades.  There is no need to
buy it all over again -- if you are dealing with someone other than a
large mailorder house which don't do anything other than push product.

>Getting updates from SCO has been a problem of hide and seek.  If I can
>tell them what I need, I may be able to stumble on to a fix that they already
>have, but there seems to be no catalog of "fixes" that might help.  Pardon
>me venting my frustration, but I can't aford to spend $1200 every year, and
>this is very much like waiting for the stock market to peak out!

So buy from a VAR who supports the product!  Then you don't have a problem
like that.  Sure, you will pay a few dollars more -- but you get what you
pay for.  If you pay rock-bottom price, and STILL expect Class-A support,
you are being unrealistic.

We resell SCO Xenix, and we frequently badger them for fixes and the like
for our customers.  We also keep available the current list of fix disks,
and how to obtain them.  Our customers seem to be happy -- we must be doing 
something right.

Remember, support IS a product.  You can either pay someone else for
support, or you can buy it direct from SCO.  SCO prices their support 
rather high - which conceivably discourages people from using it.  That 
is ok - it gives all of us resellers something to do, and yet another
possible way to earn a few bucks.

It's not terribly wise to buy something as complex as an OS from a "chop
shop"; they may sell the product(s) cheap, but they likely don't even know
what it really is or does.  We _use_ Xenix here for our internal work --
every day of the year.

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