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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <id.V9OS.H_1@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Aug22.155636.16266@unixland.natick.ma.us> <BtEAxK.JGy@gator.rn.com> <rvdp.714568017@yam.sow.econ.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:17:02 GMT
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- In article <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.
-
- That depends. In many ways that are important to me, SVR3.2 is a better
- system. After installing a few Sparcstations I was ready to scream. Make
- a mistake in a package installation and you often have to start over from
- scratch: you can't just remove the package and try again.
-
- Now if you're a Sun guru that's probably not that big a deal... you don't
- make that sort of mistake. But people in general buy systems to *use*, not
- for the joy of hacking on them.
- --
- Peter da Silva `-_-'
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