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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ESIX BBS (Was: Re: Interesting ISC Support Policy)
Keywords: ESIX, BBS
Message-ID: <1235@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 90 18:54:39 GMT
References: <40800018@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> <608@tron.UUCP> <128@sysauto.UUCP> <25752@usc.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <25752@usc.edu> engwall@mtha.usc.edu (Ralph Engwall) writes:

| I wonder about this too.  One reason I bought ESIX was because I don't have
| a grand to blow on an operating system.  It should stand to reason that many
| ESIX users don't have a grand to blow on a modem ether. ;-)

  Aw, com'on. 2400 baud modems with MNP are < $150 in the back of _PC
Week_ and other places. I sold a bunch of them last year for $125 and
made a profit. Much cheaper than paying phone bills.

  I'm told that the real reason is that getty doesn't autobaud very
well, although I can't prove that, or that the phone lines are so bad
they won't run 2400. Lot'sa rumors, how about an answer from the source?
Someone post the question on the BBS.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me