Fwd: Re: OT: Question re: SCO Use

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Subject: Re: OT: Question re: SCO Use
Date: 6/23/2005, 2:15 PM
From: Transpower <transpower at aol.com>
To: "D . Thomas Podnar" <tom at microlite.com>
cc: filepro-list at celestial.com
Organization: Transpower Corporation

D . Thomas Podnar wrote on 6/23/2005, 1:57 PM:

  > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:28:31AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
  > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:28:53PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
  > > > But after tomorrow when OSR 6.0.0 is officially launched, I
revert to
  > > > being nought but a consumer of documentation.
  > >
  > > Oh: you mean System 5 Release 3.2v6.0?
  > >
  > > When *are* they going to finally move up to Release 4?
  > >
  > > Oh, "never"?
  > >
  > > :-)
  > >
  > > Cheers,
  > > -- jra
  > > --
  > > Jay R. Ashworth
  > jra at baylink.com
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  >
  > Well, histrionics aside, there are a few things to note about
  > OpenServer 6...
  >
  > 1) It is based on SVRV.
  >
  > 2) It runs on new hardware up to and including Serial Attached SCSI
  > (SAS).
  >
  > 3) I was able to build an all-SATA solution on it (hard disk, DVD Writer
  >    and Iomega REV) on a system that the latest Suse (9.3) wouldn't even
  >    install on.
  >
  > 4) It will probably outperform Linux on most network, disk, and
  >    multi-processing performance tests, AND in real life.
  >
  > 5) It will come out of the box more secure than any other shipping OS.
  >
  > 6) Linux is backwards compatible to last week. OpenServer 6
  >    is backwards compatible to Xenix 286. Linux people say "just
recompile
  >    and it will all run fine".
  >    Sure, all your end users can do that.
  >
  > 7) Linux will run all your Open Source Applications.
  >
  > 8) OpenServer 6 will run:
  >    all your OpenServer 6 applications
  >    all your OpenServer 5 applications
  >    all your UnixWare applications
  >    all your old SCO UNIX applications
  >    all your old SCO Xenix applications
  >    AND
  >    all your OpenSource applications
  >
  > ---
  > Tom
  > ---
  > D. Thomas Podnar
  > tom at microlite.com         http://www.microlite.com
  > Microlite Corporation     724-375-6711 Voice


Tom:  How does serial SCSI and SATA compare in speed with, say, the
39320 SCSI?

Regards,
Ron Satz
Transpower Corporation
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