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From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Announcing the availability of XFree86 1.1
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References: <BvK6ny.H2J@news.udel.edu> <1992Oct3.192551.1831@netcom.com> <1992Oct3.215041.17541@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 01:05:43 GMT
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dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:

>This, by the way, is a perfect example of why SVR4 is better than SCO.
>We have a single binary kit, ~20MB compressed, that works on SVR4 from 7 
>different vendors.  There are NO (none, nada, zip, zero) differences.  Not 
>in the server, not in the clients, not in the libraries.  And the server
>(under SVR4.0.4, anyhow) supports local connections from SCO binaries 
>(i.e. I run an SCO binary on my SVR4 box, and it just works).

Likewise, we still (believe it or not) run SCO Xenix binaries
here -- and they run just fine under SVR4 4.0

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