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

Jerry_at_Trick.com
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:46:22 -0500

On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:10:37 -0400, "geforge_f" <gfisla@rogers.com>
wrote:

>
>"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..
>========================================================
>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.
>========================================================
>
>> 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
>

I can post the binaries of the development system floppies on some
alt.binaries.xx??xx newsgroup if you like.
 The/any licensing is up to you.

Jerry

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