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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Organization: Wimsey Information Services
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:46:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1JE13.22K@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <C1D9uo.BuE@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1993Jan26.222549.9231@compu.com> <C1IBDx.L73@wimsey.bc.ca> <2B668E09.296B@telly.on.ca>
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- In article <2B668E09.296B@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
- >In article <C1IBDx.L73@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
- >
- >>[SCO] works with more peripherals than any other product. Either supported
- >>directly by SCO or by the vendor with drivers for SCO (they do SCO first
- >>they maybe do SVR4, then again maybe not).
- >
- >You haven't seen the R4.2 comptibility guide produced by Univel, then. It's
- >more than 60 pages, and also includes drivers both built into Univel and
- >supplied by peripheral vendors.
-
- So SCO's is more than 130 pages. We'll have to get them together and
- compare line by line to see what the real story is though.
-
- >There has been a pretty big leap in IHV support between Release 4.0 and
- >4.2. This is the first release from USL that includes built-in support for
- >CD-ROMs, token ring and NE2000-compatible network cards (amongst other
- >things).
-
- Every release of SCO has support for new peripherals. You think they
- are standing still or something?
-
- >As from support for third parties, there is a gap but it is narrowing.
- >Softening the blow is the fact that in many instances, "SCO" drivers
- >work fine on R4 systems, especially for intelligent serial cards. How
- >many R4 drivers work under SCO?
-
- Don't particularly care. How many vendors only provide R4 drivers and
- don't provide SCO.
-
- >There are also a small (but growing) list of drivers written for R4 that
- >aren't available for SCO, mostly done on the net. SAS and XFree86 are
- >two examples. Thomas Roell, author of (possibly) the best X server
- >available on Intel UNIX, explicitly prohibits the use of his code on SCO.
-
- Fine for him.
-
- >>You also get a much larger support staff than any of the other vendors
- >>(check out PC Unix Buyers Guide).
- >
- >This is a truly useless factoid. All it means is that SCO has to field
- >more support calls than anyone else. This can be interpreted as either a
- >bug or a feature, depending on perspective.
- >
- >There are sometimes reasons to pick SCO over R4. The points mentioned
- >above aren't even minor factors anymore.
-
- Don't agree. That's fine.
-
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