SCO UNIX Development
Willy Paine
paine at rust.dec.com
Wed Nov 15 07:25:05 AEST 1989
In article <1603 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> you write:
>In article <602 at tah386.manhattan.ks.us>, terry at tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) writes:
>
>| > How many users are on your SCO UNIX system?
>| Just me. The performance is DOWN with UNIX. When something like
>| rnews or expire is running in the background, everything else pretty
>| much comes to a halt. I am running the Acer Fast file system with
>| a track buffered Western Digital disk controller board.
>
> If this is a common problem Xenix may be with us. I was planning to
>upgrade in January, but any less performance would be unacceptable. Do
>other people find that news bogs the machine?
I used to run C News on Interactive 386 and now I am running Xenix/386
with B News. I think C News would be much better with busy machine
because this allow to run full news batch on specific time (C News' rnews
just move batch to in-comming file directory). If you still want B News
or any News software, I suggest to get newsfeed during night time. B
News's rnews will push Xenix down on performance but I think there will
be more problem with new SCO Unix and I will install C News instead of
B News.
I have tested SCO Unix in separate machine and I plan to move this into
busy BBS machine. My opinion is that SCO Unix is not for everyone. I
take this because I have alot of experience with System V on the job and
I feel more comfortable with this than Xenix. Xenix is not a true
System V but this is alot lighter than real System V on saving disk
and memory spaces. For SCO Unix, I am not happy with SCO adding more
files that I don't really need like MMDF mail, Security, extra copies
of inittab files etc. I recommend SCO to offer two version: full and
lite version. As far as I am awared, SCO Unix is better with modem than
Xenix, especially autobauds on Unix while Xenix needs break signals.
I heard many reports that SCO Unix can not run over 9600 bauds but I did
many testing with Telebit with 19200 bauds without any problem.
I will keep post with you on installing News in SCO Unix.
willy
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