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- From: root@kilowatt.uucp (0000-Admin(0000))
- Subject: Consensys V4 and serial ports
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.164006.4595@kilowatt.uucp>
- Organization: Kilowatt Computing
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:40:06 GMT
- Lines: 63
-
- Hello all...
- This is my first post to the net, so please bear with me if I do
- not follow appropriate protocols too closely.
-
- I bought Consensys SVR4 about 3 months ago - under their special offer
- it was only $795 for EVERYTHING! Since they are in Canada, they had to play
- with exchange rates, saving me another 40 dollars or so.
- I have never before had a UNIX system at my disposal and have found
- myself in love with it (never to go back to DOS). I have seen a lot of
- flames in this newsgroup about Consensys, and I can see where you are all
- coming from, but I myself have had no problems with them. I realize bugs in
- the UNIX world are serious things (they can REALLY screw up your day,
- especially when you think it's your own fault for a while). I have seen
- bug fixes posted to the net (from the review of current SVR4 offerings).
- I have not tested all of the stuff this SVR4 came with, but I have not had
- too much trouble after I realized "sysadm" was a waste of time.
- I have successfully setup c-news, readnews, etc. etc. And have UUCP
- up and running at 38400 with a Telebit WorldBlazer (wish I could go 57600 or
- 115200 (hint hint - anyone have any patches???). I have had NO problems with
- the speed using the original "asy" async port driver. BTW I am using a NS16550
- UART - this helps a lot! My friend who has a SPARC 1 running SUNOS 4.1.2
- has buffer overruns when I UUCP files to him! (I am running with a 33Mhz 486)
- Overall SVR4 seems to be a lot faster than the SPARC running SunOS. I can
- compress or uncompress a tar file faster than he can with the SPARC. As much
- as 50% faster!
- According to opinions expressed on the net, I would probably opt for
- Dell's SVR4 when I have to buy an OS for a customer. Like someone said,
- Consensys SVR4 is not to tried at home! I have been a hacker/programmer/
- systems programmer/system's administrator for quite a variety of machines
- (DecSYSTEM-10/20, VAX/VMS, Micro-11, IBM-pc's et al, etc. etc.) and have found
- UNIX to be the hacker's delight. Consensys (and most other SVR4's apparently)
- have their fair share of bugs. I have notified them of a few of them, and
- they seemed happy to hear about them (as if they would be fixed sooner or
- later). If I never hear from them about these bugs, oh well. tar seems to be
- weird with symbolic links (I found that bug before I ever read about it on
- the net, and informed them of it). And their implementation of "more" (or
- is it SVR4 in general?) has a problem discerning printable chars from non-
- printable chars (it likes to newline like it has hit the 80 column mark, with
- out ever going near it!). But, they are quick to supply fixes for their own
- stuff (like the mouse driver that delays incoming characters on every
- port). I am currently using "asy" to use 3 (yes 3! contrary to the online
- manual that says asy only supports 2 ports) comm ports and have had NO
- problems. Hardware flow control works with the WorldBlazer (nice modem, I
- heartily recommend it!) and UUCP apparently. I get 1500cps+ to my friends
- SPARC using UUCP!!!
- Oh well... enough horn blowing for Consensys (I know I'll hear all
- sorts of stuff about them!). But, to reiterate, most of the times I thought
- there was a bug in something Consensys had set up, it turned out to be
- something sysadm had done incorrectly and had to be fixed manually. Or just
- my knowledge of UNIX was lacking.
- Anyway, if anyone has any questions about Consensys SVR4, I may
- be able to help...
-
- *** Consensys is a trademark of Consensys Corporation. Other trademarks
- are of their respective companies.
-
- I am:
-
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- Kilowatt Computing Arthur A. Krewat
- 51 Winnecomac Ave. uunet!admiral!kilowat!krewat
- Deer Park, NY 11729 (516) 586-4743
- (516) 253-2805 Consensys SVR4
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