Esix verses the rest of 386-unix

[Darryl Okahata]

In comp.unix.sysv386, jh at efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:

> Is there any difference between Esix and the other types like SCO and
> Interactive?
>
> Esix seems to be the cheapest alternative,
> but is there any problem with it?

     The biggest thing Esix is missing (in my opinion) is a real BSD
sockets library (both ISC and SCO have it).  Esix has a library that
appears to be a BSD socket library (the routine names in the library
*appear* to be BSD socket routine names), but it's not.

     -- Darryl Okahata
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