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- From: pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble)
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.061458.8353@catfish.az05.bull.com>
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- Organization: Bull HN Information Systems, Inc., Phoenix Product Division
- References: <BzoFqD.G50@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec31.090209.7012@catfish.az05.bull.com> <PCG.93Jan2215529@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 06:14:58 GMT
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- In article <PCG.93Jan2215529@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >On 31 Dec 92 09:02:09 GMT, pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) said:
- >
- >pls> I know The Net has praised Dell Unix and Dell support. But this
- >pls> really makes me wonder how they would be AFTER they've gotten my
- >pls> money.
- >
- >That's why you want Dell -- given that most support organizations are
- >awful (and theirs is one of the least awful, *if you get ot their Unix
- >people*), you want the most robust and well engineered system, and their
- >SVR4 product is about that. What is important is to avoid needing support.
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- High praise indeed, and you're not the only one. Perhaps I should avoid tarring
- the support people with the brush that the marketing types seem to deserve.
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- BTW, I though Dell was SysV 4.2. An earlier post leads me to believe that they
- aren't up to 4.2 and don't intend to be. What are they really?
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- ++PLS
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