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- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!rick
- From: rick@rei.com (Richard J. Barton)
- Subject: Re: consensys SYSVR4
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.144050.12154@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:40:50 GMT
- References: <9208262050.AA15963@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
- Lines: 43
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- gtvega@SEABASS.ST.USM.EDU writes:
-
-
- >lo....
- >Im thinking about installing UNIX on my PC...
-
- >Does anyone have any suggestions or experience with consensys Sys V?
- >Im trying to find out compatibility probs and also how it compares to
- >other UNIX packages.. It is supposed to be BSD compatible as well as
- >compatible with xenix too.. Please email me any info that you might ahve..
-
- I have Consensys SVR4 purchased in January. It seems to be very standard
- and works quite well. I have had minor problems, but nothing major. It
- seems to be a very standard port because we also have an NCR box at work
- and it seems to be almost identical with sysadm and functionality.
-
- The minor problems I've had are like 'history | grep something' hangs.
- You can redirect history to a file, but don't pipe it.
-
- On rare occasion, my XServer seems to hang. This is rare, but when it
- happens it's very bad news. It will just be innactive for a while, then
- goes away and I'm left with no prompt from the system. I can exit and
- come back in as root and then I need to reboot my system (gracefully).
-
- Other than that it works great and I'm very content with it. Consensys
- has had a bad reputation for support but I think they are trying to
- improve this. I haven't yet called myself because I haven't really needed
- to (yet). I posted a question once about wanting to know about multiple
- com ports other than com1 and com2 and they FAXed me a solution. I think
- most of the problems may have been with their boards and the drivers using
- it than with just the OS (my own observatoin).
-
- I have been hearing a lot of good things about DELL recently and you may
- want to look into this. I don't know what the price is thought. It
- certainly sounds well worth investigating.
-
- Happy hunting :-)
-
- --
- rick
- :-)
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