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- From: rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <rvdp.714596108@yam>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 18:55:08 GMT
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- fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:
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- >In <rvdp.714568017@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl> rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
- >>Dell SVR4 is probably the best Unix you can buy for a PC, but I think
- >>SunOS is a by far a more complete operating system.
-
- >I wonder what you mean with this statement. Can you give some examples of
- >functionallity that is present in SunOS and not present in Dell SVR4. By far
- >sounds a bit strong doesn't it?
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- Some examples? How about NIS(+) support? How can you run a PC in a
- network without NIS! SCSI support in SunOS is better (CD-ROM). Handy
- daemons like etherd, rstatd, quotad. Have you used a PC as a UFS file
- server with quotas. How do you tell how much quota you have left?
- I miss programs like (x)dbx, etherfind, traceroute, etc. Fortunately
- Dell recently ported rdist to Dell, but I think there is much more
- work to be done before it can compete with SunOS!
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- Ronald van der Pol
- rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl
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