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- From: shwake@nearside.UUCP (Raymond Shwake)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <68@nearside.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 16:36:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec2.223908.23103@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <id.MSIV.5S2@ferranti.com> <1992Dec10.232841.7252@solucor.uucp> <id.89SV.GJ8@ferranti.com>
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- >> As a proof, windows and windows NT. Windows 3.1 is crashing
- >> and crashing and crashing and selling and selling and selling.
-
- peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
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- >Windows 3.1 can be installed and run by a naive user.
-
- If you're talking about a plain-vanilla installation, then sure, but I could
- say the same thing about Destiny UN*X (though you're dealing with more media).
- On the other hand, do something just a little different and you may encounter
- a different story.
-
- With more than nine years of experience with UN*X and PCs, and several years
- of experience with different flavors of Windows, I had trouble getting it to
- function on our new AST Premium 486/33 with Adaptec 1540B. Turning in despera-
- tion to Microsoft, it still took more than 30 minutes to identify the problem.
- Seems the SCSI card was failing to follow instructions to "double-buffer",
- and we had to add an undocumented "+", which basically means "And we really
- mean it!". USL's SVr4.2, by the way, loaded without a hitch.
-
- >> Make UNIXWARE $150 and you will see a different story.
-
- Given USL licensing fees, and the current business models driving the UNIX
- vendors, getting to this range is quite unlikely, but if they don't come
- close to it, Microsoft is going to clean their clock. Like "Poor George" Bush
- before the recent election, neither USL nor UniVel yet Get It.
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