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- From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on Postscript
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:46:45 GMT
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- gram@aim1.aztec.co.za (Graham Wheeler) writes:
-
- >Agreed. That wasn't my point. My point was that Dell should make the
- >most of the fact that they are shipping the best SVR4 around, and push it
- >as a product *independent* of whether the client uses use Dell hardware or
- >not. Sure, we would like Dell hardware. But we already had plenty of good
-
- I agree. Right now the official word is "it runs on Dell hardare, if it
- runs on your hardware -- fine -- but we can't say for sure that it
- will"
-
- >Anyway, as you should know, the problem is rarely with the motherboard!
- >It is the intelligent terminal controllers, etc, etc, (i.e., the drivers)
- >where most of the problems are likely to occur.
-
- We jumped on the SVR4 bandwagon in May of 91 -- and at the time we had
- problems with drivers and hardware. Starting with the 2.1 release of
- Dell the hardware problems went away -- partly due to the fact Digiboard
- released their streams 1.0 SVR4 drivers for the CX-16
-
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