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- From: pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble)
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.235754.15744@catfish.az05.bull.com>
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- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 23:57:54 GMT
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- In article <PCG.93Jan4044924@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >On 3 Jan 93 06:14:58 GMT, pls@cibecue.az05.bull.com (Paul Schauble) said:
- >
- >pls> (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >
- >pcg> (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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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?
- >
- >As of now their 2.2 product is a SVR4.0.4, with DOSmerge 2.2.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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
-
- I've seen it stated that Dell both WILL and WILL NOT move to SVR4.2? Is
- there any official word?
-
- BTW, what's the word on Dell supporting CD-ROM? That's an essential for my
- project?
-
- ++PLS
-
-