AutoCAD on XENIX

[RICHARD RONTELTAP]

[ AutoCAD on XENIX ]

I just read that in Bulletin Board Press service. The beauty of it is,
it appears to run faster on XENIX than DOS. Probably has something to do
with 32 bit code and larger memory.

Anyway here is the article. This 'reprint' is without permission (the
eletronic magazine is free though), so I hope this won't spoil my
chance to get into that beatiful place up in the sky later on :-)

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 AUTOCAD PORTED TO SCO XENIX
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 (BPS) -- The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO) and Autodesk Inc. said that
AutoCAD, a PC-based CAD package from Autodesk, soon will be available for PC-
based workstations running the SCO XENIX 386 Operating System.
 
 "The port of AutoCAD to the SCO XENIX 386 environment has resulted in an
extremely fast implementation of AutoCAD," said Robert Wenig, manager of
Autodesk's AutoCAD porting group.
 
 "This dramatic increase in speed means that AutoCAD users can create larger,
more complex drawings in a given amount of time.  It's like getting the kind
of performance increase you'd expect from a major hardware upgrade by simply
upgrading your software."
 
 Doug Michels, SCO's vice president and co-founder, said, "By migrating to SCO
XENIX, current DOS-based AutoCAD users can dramatically increase the
performance of their systems, as well as enjoy full access to both XENIX and
DOS-based business applications, running concurrently on the same PC
workstation.
 
 "SCO XENIX also provides LAN connectivity to integrate a CAD operation
smoothly into both small and large organizations.
 
 "In addition, current SCO XENIX users can now add AutoCAD to Autodesk's
Autosolid and other third party CAD packages already available for SCO XENIX
386 to build full feature CAD systems on PC platforms."
 
 AutoCAD Release 10 for SCO's XENIX Operating System will be priced at U.S.
$3,000.
 
 Contact: Autodesk Inc., 2320 Marinship Way, Sausalito, CA 94965; 415/332-
2344.
 
 Source: BBS PRESS SERVICE, INC: 913-478-9239 (modem)

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Richard
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