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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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Subject: Re: problems with Xenix
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Date: 8 Aug 89 16:08:07 GMT
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In article <248@mgse.UUCP> marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:
>I have a clone 286 with a Wyse 995 multiport card.
>i am running SCO Xenix 286 re. 2.2.1. The Wyse drivers are 1.19.
>At one time i had the number to a Wyse Tech. in Texas. He sent me a
>revision B rom, and the 1.19 drivers, along with a 3 page list of
>other known bugs.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There was a long time ago when we tried using the Wyse 995.
It was an exercise of futility. I even went so far as to say I would eat 
something or other if Wyse was on the net (they are with a Sun) but no help 
was forthcoming from them. But we did see the problem to be one of Wyse's 
making. They were selling the board even without drivers. As far as I know we 
still have a bunch of these boards and they STILL don't work with VP/ix on the 
system and we STILL can't do transparent printing of the terminals.

But whatever, I can't blame SCO for other people's lack of of product support. 
The market usually takes care of that.

>them another $600+ for another year of support! (IMHO i could get
>better support from a jock strap than from them.)
>I am having two problems with the async. ports, they may be related, i
>don't know.
Of course, they are related. Plug in somebody else's multi-user board and your 
problems will go away.

As far as your public flaming goes... How much do you expect them to 
do for 600 bucks a year? I don't know if you've ever dealt with customer 
support but $50/mo ain't much, believe me. It's one or two calls and you're 
losing money.  


>"When you want to get a cow pregnent, you get a bull to service here,
>SCO services there customers well."

You may also wish use a dictionary sometime.  If nothing else, use the Lyrix
speller.



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