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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Re: CD's and SCO NFS
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:02:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.160246.1952@wes.on.ca>
- References: <9212201038.aa26743@dlpco.dlpco.COM>
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- tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
- >> [About sharing a CD-ROM drive over NFS]
- >> Yes, it apparently can be done. However, our system is just over a year
- >> old, and I'll have to upgrade everything in order to run NFS 1.2. To
- >> upgrade the OS, DS, TCP/IP and NFS will cost us almost $1100 from SCO.
- >> It'd be cheaper for me to buy a CD-ROM drive for every PC!
-
- >> On the other hand, ESIX has a competitive upgrade available for $508, and
- >> complete BSD/386 costs under $1000 -- including X and source.
-
- lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn ) writes:
- > Be warned. Everex just announced that they are losing money like
- > crazy. I cannot believe that ESIX will be on their list of things
- > to keep as I doubt that it can be profitable for them given their
- > current problems. [...] Before you consider ESIX, be really careful.
-
- Thanks! This is the great thing about the Net...
-
- >> I'm happy with SCO's tech support, hardware compatability and performance,
- >> but their upgrade pricing sucks rocks. Right now I'm sufficiently pissed
- >> off that I'm seriously considering switching.
-
- This still stands: we paid about US$ 2000 for our Unix+networking, and less
- than a year later we're asked to fork over another US$ 1100.
-
- Current options include buying 2 more CD-ROMs for PCs (US$ 750), running
- Windows for Workgroups alongside NFS (US$ 200), BSD/386 (US$ 1000, but
- apparently the SCSI driver still has a nasty bug), and making do without a
- CD-ROM. Sigh.
-
- [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
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