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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.183108.7760@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:31:08 GMT
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- In article <rvdp.714596108@yam>, rvdp@sow.econ.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
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- | Some examples? How about NIS(+) support? How can you run a PC in a
- | network without NIS!
-
- You don't have to, NIS is there.
-
- | SCSI support in SunOS is better (CD-ROM).
-
- SCO supports CD, Dell doesn't. One of their few shortcomings,
-
- and one of two reasons I still run SCO on some machines. Their C
- compiler is the other.
-
- | 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?
-
- There's a problem I don't have (or want). I don't think we have
- quota turned on for the Suns, either, at least no any of the 20-30 I
- use.
-
- | 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!
-
- Dell gives you sdb (and gdb and dbx, I think, but I don't normally use
- them). Everyone has a favorite tool, but as long as you have a tool that
- works, that's a start. SCO offers codeview, which I really like but
- don't use enough to stay current. Lots of good solutions to the problem,
- although that's only important to those who don't write perfect working
- code first time. (Sorry, couldn't resist).
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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