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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.163703.11744@compu.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:37:03 GMT
- References: <9209061050.AA05570@dynamix.com> <Bu6Bpp.AG8@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
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- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- >>Nope - I've always used smail ... never had a problem with it either
- >>(why buy an inferior SCO product when a free on will do?)
-
- >That's not the point. We could all go run BSD/386 instead of SCO, or
- >replace our entire /bin and /usr/bin with the GNU equivalents.
- >Sure, you *can* get domain-based e-mail running on a Xenix system, but
- >it's an unbelievable amount of trouble to rip out the Xenix e-mail
- >system and replace it with your own.
-
- Now wait a minute Marc! Here you are definately wrong, wrong, wrong. We've
- been useing smail and elm and rn news since the early 286 days with Xenix.
- There are several hundred such systems out there some in your own backyard.
- When SCO came out with CUSTOM we quickly took advantage of that and prepared
- an install disk that was all nicely preconfigured, asked a few questions and
- even a user could install the system. I grant you the 286 was a bitch because
- of the segmentation and we probably don't have any left out there but I'm not
- even sure about that.
-
- But we didn't rip things out, we simply added what was needed so that the site
- would be on our customer support network to receive mail and news. It was no
- biggy.
-
- Fred
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