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- From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
- Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.165151.14858@godzilla.quotron.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:51:51 GMT
- References: <Bu1xBv.HoL@gator.rn.com> <1992Sep8.145610.1099@godzilla.quotron.com> <1992Sep9.144442.22664@crd.ge.com>
- Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.
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- In article <1992Sep9.144442.22664@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep8.145610.1099@godzilla.quotron.com>, sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:
- >
- >| >actually, Dell as compared against other SVR4 products is a deal --
- >| >look at UHC for example, or even take ESIX -- the price for Dell
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >| >is about what one would pay for a complete ESIX SVR4 and DOS Merge --
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >|
- >| Larry, then why is Dell "such a bargain"? If the price for Dell is the same
- >| as a complete ESIX SVR4 and Merge, then, if my logic is correct, ESIX is the
- >| better value. Am I missing something?
- >
- > Dell includes Merge. And two versions of gcc. And net stuff you would
- >need, like Perl, pbm, ect. And both Motif and openlook. I could go on,
- >but you get the idea. When I got my first beta years ago I thought they
- >dumped some hacker's personal machine with all the toys. Then I found
- >out I didn't have to do all the ports, the stuff was there.
- >
-
- Bill,
-
- My original comment was based on the above emphasized comment ( ^^^^^^^^^ ).
- My impression of Larry's comment was that DELL cost the SAME as ESIX
- with DOS Merge; therefore, where was the "bargain"????
-
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- > I have upgraded some things, but in general the Dell is compete and
- >probably includes more than most people will want to keep on their
- >disks.
- >
- >--
- >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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- Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz
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