BSD 4.3 for a 386 -- conclusion

[pezely]

Chuck Karish <karish at forel.stanford.edu> best sums up the answers to my
posting.
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.

>Are there any good BSD 4.3 implementations for 386 PCs?

Not really.  Several people have been working on a vanilla port for a while,
but it's not generally available.  The closest things available are
SunOS for their 386i, and AIX for the PS/2 models 70 and 80, which is
a largely SysV-like interface built on a 4.3-derived kernel.  AIX has
many Berkeley features; it's a reasonably cvomfortable environment
for someone who's used to BSD.  Only useful of you have IBM iron.

>Is the new version of SCO Xenix BSD 4.3?  

No.

>Is the new version of Xenix only System V with Berkeley enhancements?

SCO UNIX is a SysVR3.2 port, with XENIX-compatibility enhancements.
In particular, it seems to have the brain-dead XENIX csh.  The SCO
TCP/IP package is still in a state of rapid development (not stable yet)
and they haven't released NFS.  It has security enhancements.
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