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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Second hand UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.140112.1032@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:01:12 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- Hi --
-
- I have two purposes in making this post:
-
- 1) To determine levels of customer satisfaction with various versions
- of UNIX. I figure that folks who respond have either tried and not
- liked the flavor of UNIX which they have, or else have liked it so
- well that they have upgraded to a newer version and have an older
- UNEMCUMBERED version of the software about.
-
- 2) To find the cheapest USED version of UNIX that I can which includes
- the following:
- 1) Must Have TCP/IP and NFS
- 2) Must Have Development System
- 3) [Desirable -- DOS MERGE or VP/IX]
- 4) [Desirable -- X-Windows]
- 5) [Desirable -- Can be loaded from 1.2 M floppies]
- 6) [Desirable -- Supports SCSI, RLL, and IDE]
- 7) [Desirable -- Unlimited user license]
- 8) [Desirable -- Has a reasonable upgrade path]
- 9) [Desirable -- Has support for SyQuest removable media]
- 10) [Desirable -- Has support for CD-ROM]
- 11) [Desirable -- has support for VGA]
-
- If I had the money, I would be thinking of Dell SysVR4. Since I don't, I would
- ideally like to find something of that quality at a lower cost [I want a lot,
- don't I? :-) ].
-
- BTW, I have SCO XENIX and Microport UNIX that I am looking to decommission if I
- find the above at a good price -- SCO and Microport want more for an upgrade
- from what I have to what I want than Dell charges for a whole new system :-(.
-
- If I don't get a newer UNIX soon, I may dump what I have and load OS/2 on my
- system -- TCP/IP and NFS can be had for that platform at a very reasonable
- price. [So take that, you price-gouging UNIX-vendors :-) ]
-
- orville
-
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