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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!linus!alliant!merk!usinset!jr
- From: jr@inset.com (JR Oldroyd)
- Subject: Re: Mach 3.0 on 386/486
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.131949.14891@inset.com>
- Reply-To: "JR Oldroyd" <jr@onion.inset.com>
- Organization: The Instruction Set, Waltham, MA, USA
- References: <lychan.713673949@yak> <1992Aug24.200820.24081@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:19:49 GMT
- Lines: 67
-
- Recently, ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com wrote:
- >
- > > In article <lychan.713673949@yak>, lychan@socs.uts.edu.au (91031322 l y chan) writes:
- > >
- > > I'm looking for a version of Mach 3.0 that will run on Intel 386/486.
- > > I would also like to know the hardware requirements for that.
- >
- > ...
- >
- > Do NOT, repeat, do NOT buy Mach from Mt. Xinu!! One of my friends (I graduated
- > from Carnegie Mellon and was taught by the current Mach leader) was on the Mach
- > team and he said tha Mt. Xinu's version was several revs behind and not quality
- > work. Why pay lots of money when the CMU i386 version is complete and
- > standalone (now at least).
- >
-
- This is a grossly inappropriate recommendation, which I feel must be
- countered. I would say, DO, repeat DO, rush out and buy it from mt Xinu.
-
- I have been using the mt Xinu product for something like 9 months, now.
- I can say most categorically that it is certainly a quality product. In
- fact, I would go so far as to say that it is one of the BETTER quality
- products that I have seen on the market for some time.
-
- Consider... buying a commercial product, such as mt Xinu's, means:
-
- - You don't have to port raw stuff to your system - the
- commercial product comes with easy-to-use installation
- software. (Takes 20-30 minutes to install; compare that
- with doing the Mach net-RPC install.)
-
- - You don't have to port every single subsystem that you
- need - the commercial product comes complete with:
-
- - Mach kernel
- - BSD environment
- - full networking support
- - full on-line documentation
- - X-windows server and full toolkit
- - GNU C compiler
- - many public-domain tools pre-compiled and tested
-
- (Just consider the effort and time you'd need to do it all
- yourself).
-
- In fact, from mt Xinu, you get more than you do from CMU.
- For example, mt Xinu had Color X support and full SCSI tape
- support before CMU did, I believe.
-
- - You are getting a stable product. The *latest* release is
- frequently not the best - all new software takes time to
- shake the bugs out. mt Xinu only incorporate changes, after
- they're proven.
-
- On this front, I can say that I am very impressed that the
- software they ship really does work, and it works the way
- I expect it to. I have found very few bugs. Those that I
- did encounter were fixed very quickly.
-
- - You are getting a supported product. mt Xinu's support has
- been excellent, as far as I'm concerned. They offer on-line
- updates and information. They offer very quick turn around
- of any problems you send them.
-
- As far as I'm concerned, it is definately worth the money.
-
- -jr
-