From: jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca (John Joseph Strybosch)
Subject: Unix sysVr4 for 386 and 486 machines. (long)
Originator: jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca
Organization: Ubitrex Corporation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 
 
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:48:52 GMT

I am selling because I have completed the work that I needed
it for, and I find myself needing the cash.  I have also
already moved the unix partition to an OS/2 partition since
that is where I do most of my stuff at home.

I am asking $775 (USD) $900 (Cdn). The same thing new 
currently sells for about $1375 (USD) plus shipping (Quoted 
Aug 5 1992: $1295 for unlimmited licence package plus $80 
for floppy distribution).
 
JJ Strybosch

The following is from their product info fliers:
(excuse the typo's, they are mine)
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Consensys V4 is derived from UNIX System V Rel. 4 under 
licence from UNIX System Laboratories, the AT&T spin-off
that owns the UNIX operating system.  System V Release 4
was developed by AT&T and SUN Microsystems, with help 
from Intel Corp and others.

This brochure is a brief overview of what's new in V4, in
comparison with older versions of UNIX such as Release
3.2, SCO UNIX and Xenix, plus a number of enhancements 
from Consensys.  The new features in System V Rel. 4 are
grouped in eight major categories.

1 Standardization and Unification
-Merges the best features of BSD and SunOS into standard
 System V.
-Provides XENIX compatibility at the source code and
 binary levels.
-Full POSIX conformance.

2 Operating System Enhancements
-The Korn shell, Streams, and troff with PostScript
 output.
-Incorporates the VM(Virtual Memory) architecture from
 SunOS.
-Provides VFS(Virtual File System), allowing multiple
 file system types.
-Job Control.
-The Berkeley Fast File System.
-Symbolic links (as in BSD)

3 System Administration & Maintainence
-Full on-line manual pages for all commands.
-A new system administration menu/form interface.
-Improved backup and restore capabilities.

4 INternationalization
-Support for multiple international code sets and
 multi-byte characters.
-A new message-handling facility provides a means
 for translating system messages to an other language.

5 Networking
-RFS distributed file system.
-PC-Interface DOS Network Server.
-Supports a large number of networking features from
 BSD and SunOS, including:
    -NFS(Network File System)
    -TCP/IP
    -Sockets
    -Remote Procedures Call
    -Network Selection and Name-to-Address Mapping

6 Real Time Services
-A user-controlled process scheduler with support 
 for real time processing.

7 C Development System
-ANSI-compliant C compiler and libraries.
-Dynamic linking allows processes to share library
 code at runtime.
-New object file form (ELF), with enhanced support
 for ANSI C and C++.
-Sdb source debugger.
-Cscope source browser.
-Lprof frequency profiler.

8 XWINDOWS Graphical Windowing System
-Support for the XWINDOWS protocols (Consensys V4
 supports the latest, X11R5).
-Consensys V4 provides the Motif graphical user
 interface.


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Exclusive Features in CONSENSYS V4

Among hundreds of improvements and enhancements made
to create V4(tm), the development team at Consensys
has focused its efforts on adding features that are
important to the majority of users.

*A Completely New Install Procedure*
System V Release 4 has several mandatory disk slices 
and file systems to configure, as well as a choice
of types for each file system. TO make things easy,
Consensys has developed a new installation procedure
for V4. Using menus and forms, it provides the information
and the tools needed to easily configure and
install V4 on any 1 or 2 disk system. You can install
V4 from either diskettes or tape. We think a tape
installation of V4 will prove to be the easiest operating
system installation you have ever done.

*New Step-by-Step System Administration Interface*
System V Release 4 provides a comprehensive system 
administration package called _sysadm_. Its forms and menus 
can be used to do all the necessary system administration 
tasks.  Given the level of complexity of the underlying data 
structures and programs, it is probably a mistake even for 
experienced UNIX administrators to attempt most of these 
tasks outside _sysadm_.
We have made major improvements to _sysadm_ by adding our
own menus and forms in several areas, and by providing a
"cookbook" of step-by-step _sysadm_ recipes for performing
over twenty standard tasks, including adding printers, 
terminals, disks, and users, and performing backups.

*Multiple Virtual Screens for the System Console*
One of the main features of the Consensys POWERPORTS multiport
cards is their ability to provide up to 8 virtual screens on
any standard terminal.  On V4, we adapted this multi-screen 
technology to the system console.  A program called v4screens 
automatically provides 8 virtual screens on the system console
each with its own login shell.  You can run up to 8 full-screen
applications simultaneously, and switch between them using
Alt-F1 through Alt-F8 as hot keys.  You only log in or out on
Screen 1, which automatically starts or terminates all other
sessions. If you prefer individual logins on one or more of
the virtual screens (like SCO 'multiscreens'), you can have
that too!

*V4pkg: A Forms-Based Package Manager*
System V Release 4 provides a new set of utilities for adding
removing and listing software packages (pkgadd, pkgrm, pkingo).
Our _v4pkg_ program is a form-based interface to these utilities
with specific knowledge of the interdependencies and media 
locations of all the packages in V4.  You can use _v4pkg_ to
manage all software packages on your system.

*V4net: Automated Network Administration*
If you've ever had to administer a network, you're well aware
of the complicated and time-consuming efforts required to keep
all machines consistent whenever you add or delete nodes, or
change the configuration of remote file systems or other 
network resources.  V4net solves all of these network 
configuration problems, letting anyone administer even a large
network configuration on any machine running V4, and the new
configuration is automatically propagated to all machines on
the network.  Both NFS and RFS are supported.

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Hardware compatibility list:

Required hardware:
A 386 or a 486 ISA or EISA Bus computer with keyboard
At least 4MB of system RAM (8MB with Xwindows)
A monochrome, EGA, VGA adapter with appropriate monitor.
A high density diskette drive (5.25 or 3.5 inch) 
      [Drive A: must be 3.5" to install my disks]
A hard disk of at least 70MB formatted capacity.
A WD-compatible disk controller (IDE, ST506, or ESDI) or an
  Adaptec 1540-compatible scsi controller.

Optional Hardware:
A POWERTAPE, Everex, Archive(Maynard) or Wangtec QUC02 tape
  controller with appropriate tape drive.
An Adaptec 1540-compatible SCSI controller with disk or tape
  drives.
A standard 2-port parallel adapter (LPT1 and LPT2)
A standard 2-port serial adapter (COM1 and COM2)
A POWERPORTS intelligent serial I/O card.
A WD8003 or WD8013- compatible network card.
A logitech-compatible serial or bus mouse
     [I have drivers for both the old and new mice]
An Archive XL tape drive.

XWindows Support:
The X windows system uses a significant portion of system
resources. For adequate performance, we recommend that you
have at least a 33MHZ 386 and 387 or a 25 MHZ 486.  A system
running X should probably have at least 8MB of system RAM
installed.  A SuperVGA card is required to get sufficient
screen resolution of X.  The V4 Window system supports only
certain kinds of SuperVGA cards.  Consensys can supply you
with an inexpensive SVGA card that is guaranteed to work with
X.  Alternatively, the following SuperVGA cards are supported
by MIT to work with X11R5:
   ET4000 chip set based at 1024x768:
      Compuadd Hi-Rez card w/1Meg
      Diamond SpeedStar
      Optima Mega/1024
      Orchid ProDesigner II/1024
      Sigma Legend
      STB PowerGraph w/1Meg
      Swan SVGA with VCO chip
      TRICOM Mega/1024
   ET3000 chip set based at 800x600:
      EIZO MD-10
      Orchid ProDesigner
   GVGA chip set at 800x600:
      GENOA 6400
   PVGA1A at 640x480:
      Paradise VGA Professional
   WD90C00 at 640x480:
      Paradise VGA 1024

SVGA monitor must be capable of displaying at least 800x600
pixels, and must have "multisync" capability.
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