From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!sdyer@bbn-unix.arpa
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Radio Shack 16/"TRS-XENIX"
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.511
Posted: Sat Feb 26 11:26:17 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 07:28:18 1983

From:  Steve Dyer 

Now that Radio Shack has officially announced their version of XENIX for
their Model 16, I'd like to hear from people who've used it.  In
particular, I'm wondering how "good" the port is--what the address
space/user is, what kind of memory management they use, and how invisible
the multi-tasking is.  I've used a 68000 port where VI "dies" if a C
compilation goes on in the background; on the other hand, the ONYX Z8000
system I used several years ago gave a pretty good emulation of a standard
PDP-11/70 running V7--I never was unduly reminded that this was a much
less powerful system.

Also, I'd like to know whether Tandy is providing an entire UNIX binary
system, or following the despicable practice of unbundling certain
essentials (such as the C compiler) and changing separately for them.

/Steve Dyer