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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
- Message-ID: <PCG.93Jan4044924@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 04:49:24 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com's message of 3 Jan 93 06: 14:58 GMT
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- On 3 Jan 93 06:14:58 GMT, pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) said:
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- pls> (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
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- pcg> (Paul Schauble) said:
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- 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.
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- pcg> That's why you want Dell -- given that most support organizations
- pcg> are awful (and theirs is one of the least awful, *if you get ot
- pcg> their Unix people*), you want the most robust and well engineered
- pcg> system, and their SVR4 product is about that. What is important is
- pcg> to avoid needing support.
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- pls> High praise indeed, and you're not the only one.
-
- Well, I was just trying to provide Larry with some rest in his pro-Dell
- activity. It must be tiring to sing hymn on Dell's Unix all day.
- :-) :-) :-)
-
- pls> BTW, I though Dell was SysV 4.2. An earlier post leads me to
- pls> believe that they aren't up to 4.2 and don't intend to be. What are
- pls> they really?
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- As of now their 2.2 product is a SVR4.0.4, with DOSmerge 2.2.
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- They have stated on these very screens that they will surely offer
- Solaris 2.x in the future, alongside SVR4.0.4, and maybe even SVR4.2.
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- We all hope they will get an SVR4.2 product once SVR4.2 has become even
- more stable.
- --
- Piercarlo Grandi, Dept of CS, PC/UW@Aberystwyth <pcg@aber.ac.uk>
- E l'italiano cantava, cantava. E le sue disperate invocazioni giunsero
- alle orecchie del suo divino protettore, il dio della barzelletta
-