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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ESIX
Message-ID: <934@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 07:13:38 GMT
References: <1595@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Organization: Fiver Communications  Fremont, Ca
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From article <1595@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):
> In article <2559B869.26977@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, rho@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Raymond Ho) writes:
> 	[  many features of ESIX  ]
> 
>   I believe that these are all correct, but check that the base price
> includes TCP support, because I have one ad here which list all the
> other stuff but no TCP.
 
  It's in there. Support for the Everex, 3Com, and WD controllers.
  I'm useing it on some WD8003E cards, with NFS connect to a PC-DOS
  cleint.
  
> |  also some reports claim that ESIX is the fastest Unix Sys V available for pcs.

  To general of a statement. There product is fast but when I try to compile
15 large programs and the news feed comes in with 5 megs of files and two
bbs users call in the system tends to slow up. :-)


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