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bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>In article <1994Aug16.125631.17069@taylor.infi.net>, mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) says:
>+---------------
>| evanc@bkanhf.bnr.ca (David Harding) writes:
>| >The utilities that came with SCO (ie: chown, rm, sed, etc.) are archaic and
>| >had to be replaced with their GNU equivalents.
>| 
>| ???????  They are standard System 5 utilities.  We have never had any
>| problems with them.
>+------------->8

>Table sizes and etc.  Altos SVR3.1 utilities worked better and generally
>handled larger files than SCO 3.2 does; 

We used to use Altos Unix... from 3.1 to 3.2.something.  In fact, a newer high
powered Altos box is running our Hospital right now.  Altos is a large
box maker, and therefore tunes their OS for large filesystems, networks,
and multi-user functions.  Altos switched, however, from Altos Unix to
SCO MPX Unix several years ago.  The reason- to ensure access to the large
commercial base of software SCO has (and also to roll in some new technology,
like multiprocessing).

I can say that the repackaged SCO ODT MPX which Altos included, was tuned
for large everything.  I have only had to adjust the streams a little higher.

>I could almost believe SCO built
>everything sized for 286es.

Hmmm....

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