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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!ksmith!keith
- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: SCO support (was: How to replace disk driver in SCO Unix ?)
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 03:31:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep05.033137.1364@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug26.203445.10413@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug29.090535.1657@saans.north.de> <BttAI8.8J4@gator.rn.com>
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- In article <BttAI8.8J4@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >rolf@saans.north.de (Rolf Nerstheimer) writes:
- >
- >>Nowadays, maybe Larry is right.
- >>For my part, I don't like SCO anymore, they don't listen any longer.
- >>It's seems, time has come to try something else.
- >
- >I was running SCO. I started with Xenix. I really liked Xenix, and
- >at the time it was what I consider my only option. After SCO Xenix
- >I wanted real Unix -- not a modified release -- so I jumped on the
- >ISC bandwagon. ISC was fast, and worked. Then I wanted to keep current
- >with the industry so I jumped on the SVR4 bandwagon - and I am now on
- >my 3rd release of SVR4. Hopefully I'll see 2.1 shortly. SVR4 works,
- >is current in the industry -- and follows standards (unlike some vendors
- >who modified 3.2 for long file names and symbolic links)..
-
- If you can cook eggs & bacon on it is it a skillet or a frying pan? Or
- who gives a rats ass what you call it, as long as it runs your darn
- program. I run SVR(whatever runs my finking application). If I need long
- filenames and symlinks either will do. As for "standards" well. . .
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