From: eichin@tweedledumber.cyGNUs.com (Mark Eichin) Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? Date: 10 Aug 1993 10:59:02
>> Hmm, which version are you using? And have you tried rcc?
SCO 3.2v4.0 + ODT 2.0. If I recall correctly (did the port
December 92) rcc didn't even get that far. (cc is based on microsoft C
version 6, and I believe was actually an ANSI compiler, rcc is, well,
pcc 2 generations later...)
>> There are several Ethernet cards supported by SCO. Consult biz.sco.com
Perhaps in a new release. As of the release I had (which I
believe was current at the time, though I may be wrong) 3c503 was the
only ISA bus ethercard (there was an EISA card or two, and a bunch of
other network interface types, just not much ethernet.) This was
according to the hardcopy manual, though the online driver
installation program (one of the few nice things about SCO :-) didn't
have any others either. (In particular, it certainly did *not* have
the NE2000.)
>> SCO has been available on CDROM for at least a year or two now. It is
>> also available on QIC tape and floppies. I am not familiar with your disk
>> problems, it seems as fast as Linux to me.
Ah, if it's available on CDROM I should try and get ahold of
it next time we upgrade. (We're running the same release that our
customers are, though...) The problem with floppies is that as of the
release I was using, there was no sign that SCO was doing any kind of
track buffering, and it took over a minute per floppy just to read
them in.
Thanks for your information on the how SCO has improved; I'll
see if there's an update I can get. I guess it's not totally fair to
compare SCO a year ago with Linux today (well, maybe, SCO a year ago
had been in the market for quite a while, they had a feature set and
just needed quality...)
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