VenturCom Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts pioneer of tiny Unixes – it once had a version of its Venix for the 8-bit Z80 chip – claims to have the first real-time version of Unix System V.4.2, which it calls Venix System V.4.2.1. It says it runs on any iAPX-86 chip from the 80386 up: the machine needs 6Mb memory, 100Mb disk and a 6150 cartridge tape drive. It comes with TCP/IP, Network File System, X Window, the Veritas journalling file system, Motif and Open Look as standard. As a workstation system, it is priced at $1,000 in unit quantities. As a development system with ANSI C compiler, graphical user interface development software, real-time development utilities and industrial device drives, it’s priced at $2,400 per user. The company provides an OEM-oriented tool kit to help make the Venix kernel embeddable and even able to be stored in ROM. In quantities of 2,000, the kernel costs $60.
