Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!bywater!arnor!morannon.watson.ibm.com!uri From: uri@morannon.watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: ESIX joys!! (?!) Keywords: ESIX, Unix Message-ID: <1989Nov15.212321.3012@arnor.uucp> Date: 15 Nov 89 21:23:21 GMT Article-I.D.: arnor.1989Nov15.212321.3012 References: <1024@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> <6081@shlump.nac.dec.com> <6700039@adaptex> Sender: news@arnor.uucp (Gondor News) Reply-To: uri@ibm.com Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Lines: 47 --------------------- > > Today at Comdex (in Las Vegas) I saw in person the latest version of > ESIX System V 3.2. From what I saw it was a very nice port of UNIX. It was ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, have you ever seen an "ugly" port? ^^^^^ > running under X with no apparent slowness. The sales person said that ESIX may ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Could you be more specific please? What did they show you? And, which is more important - what hardware was it running on? 386/33MHz plus memory cache, plus Weitek or 80387 plus 16 or 20MB of RAM - you know... If you can afford that - you may as well buy a little workstation-screamer (:-). > be coming out with Version/Release D before releasing 5.4. At ~$600 for a full > blown system I will more than likely be buying this version of UNIX. > > David A. Gonzales Couple of questions. First: did you see ESIX Color X-Windows, or black-and-white version? The Color one is ABSOLUTELY unusable (slow). The operating system itself, well, as others... No drag or boost noticeable. Now. Who told you it will cost $600 ?! All the ads Everex publishes for ESIX say $836 (or something around that , but definitely more than $800). And you say "full blown system". Well, when I bought their Release A, it didn't have the features it was supposed to (according to their advertisements, and those pieces of manual I got). So I had to pay for an upgrade to Release B, which had bridged the gap a little. The funniest thing was - they were thinking for about three weeks, wether I can get the upgrade, or should pay for the new system as if I were buying the new one (imagine, it was less than a month after I bought so-called Release A!). I also had some problems reporting bugs (needless to say I haven't got any fixes :-), they gave me an e-mail address, but e-mail goes there as in the trash-can (nothing comes back, and no response :-). Otherwise, the system is not bad. Well, it costed me about $350 (plus $70 upgrade) - so to have a "full-blown UNIX" for $420 - should I complain? (:-) ============