Santa Cruz Operation, which does not expect to ship a version of SCO Xenix based on the AT&T merged Xenix/Unix version until first quarter next year, has been showing off its own interim product in the form of Xenix System V Release 2.3. The company stressed the Unix compatibility – it is claimed to run Unix V.3.1 binaries without recompilation, and includes support for Streams and shared libraries – and international features. The latter include an international developers kit and additional 8-bit utilities such as Mail, to support the 8-bit data paths through the kernel introduced with System V.3.1. Other features include support for workstation co-processors, SCSI and ESDI disks. The software comes in versions for AT-bus or Microchannel machines, and pricing is the same as for the previous release.
