Re: SCO V 386 Rel. 3.2. v 4.0...

From: geforge_f (gfisla_at_rogers.com)
Date: 05/23/05 

Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:10:37 -0400

"Tony Lawrence" <foo@pcunix.com> wrote in message
news:pLidndNbCadvSgzfRVn-qg@taconic.net...
> Walter Vaughan wrote:
>> geforge_f wrote:
>>
>>> Is someone willing to help me to get back to my Young Age...?
>>> I am 56 y old programmer... and I would like play again with my
>>> SCO Unix V 386 / Release 3.2 v4.0... but I don't have clue where
>>> are my developer system floppies.... I didn't touch it 7 years..
>>
>>
>> Have you looked at installing freeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD instead? In about
>> ten minutes you will feel back at home. Even more so if you came to SCO
>> via Xenix on the RS16B/6000 platform. Unless you have Xenix 286/8086
>> binaries, the ibcs module should allow any 386 binaries you already have
>> to run.
>>
>> Just an idea if all you want is "command line heaven", rather than all
>> that pointy clicky stuff.
>>
>> You might also check out ebay. Stuff like this sometimes shows up.
>> Finding at least what is a 13-45 year old diskette that is good may be
>> your second problem.
>>
>> Good luck on your quest.
>
> I dunno, I'm just a little suspicious of this. Why 4.0, which was pretty
> broken as I remember it? v4.2 was a lot more stable, and the "command
> line heaven" is the same.. for that matter, any 5.0.x release has the same
> basic command line, and as you point out, BSD or Linux are freely
> available..
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Hi Tony....
the 4.0 is my official version.... Yaa.. it will be nice to have 4.2....
one day may be..
I also have Xenix 2.3.4... complete... and I am still hacking with
Coherent...

thanx. fox .. and Bye...
george.
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> The 4.2's also came on CD, much more likely to have survived, and commonly
> seen on eBay in addition to landfills.
>
> --
> Tony Lawrence
> Unix/Linux/Mac OS X resources: http://aplawrence.com

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