SCO UNIX Product Changes

The SCO range of UNIX Products has been upgraded from 21st May 1993. The changes will affect the products available from Apricot in the following ways:-

TCP/IP 1.2.0 and NFS 1.2.0 have been upgraded to version 1.2.1 - These are maintenance releases which will be shipped from our warehouse when stocks of existing product are exhausted. Upgrading to 1.2.1 from 1.2.0 will be possible by downloading the appropriate disk images from the UNIX mail server or the MS-DOS Insight BBS.

SCO UNIX V/386 3.2v4.1 has also been updated to 3.2v4.2 but the new product signals the introduction of user banding on SCO UNIX Operating Systems. There will be 3 bands of product for each of the SCO Operating Systems with the 16 user versions equating to the earlier product pricing. The user banding is also being introduced with Open Server and Desktop (not currently available from Apricot) which from 21st May will be Rev 3.0.

Apricot customers who have bought 3.2v4.[01] UNIX can upgrade to 512 user versions of UNIX 3.2v4.2 via a Maintenance Supplement which will be available on the UNIX mail server or MS-DOS Insight BBS. Apricot will continue to ship 3.2v4.1 which is essentially 512 user) until stocks are exhausted at £1040. This provides a window of opportunity in particular for Xenix systems to be upgraded to UNIX before the new 512 user RRP becomes effective when full 3.2v4.2 ships from our warehouse.

The new UNIX 3.2v4.2 has some additional functionality including more kernel tuning and specific RDBMS tuning documentation and Intel Pentium recognition. Later supplements will make available specific optimisation for the Pentium processor. Apricot FT//s or FT//e machines must use 3.2v4.2/Open Server 3.0 (or later) versions of SCO UNIX when a Pentium is installed. It is strongly recommended that anyone installing SCO UNIX on an FT//s or FT//e of any derivative also uses SCO UNIX V/386 3.2v4.2 or Open Server 3.0.

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