Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rls!randy From: randy@rls.UUCP (Randall L. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Does Microport offer Updates to its users? Summary: not quite Message-ID: <10619@rls.UUCP> Date: 30 Aug 90 04:28:11 GMT References: <847@iiasa.UUCP> <10615@rls.UUCP> <152@grumbly.UUCP> <1990Aug28.014027.969@mccc.uucp> Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 In article <1990Aug28.014027.969@mccc.uucp>, pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes: > In article <152@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.UUCP (rb duc) writes: Actually, I write the => part... but no matter... > =>Microport will not be offering v3.2, just v4.0 late this year, or IMHO, > =>possibly early next year. But that's it. > = > =Microport is shipping v4.0 *right now* and has been for *over a month*. I > =wouldn't count out a v3.2 either. Well, sorta. Microport is offering the straight poop developers systems with *no* enhancements from AT&T. It's just like some other Intel Unix vendors 4.0's right now. The package release is designed to give 4.0 Unix to those that absolutely, positively hafta have it now. Joe User, like myself, would not be pleased with this bare bones release. > But what Microport *hasn't* done is to contact owners of 3.0e and offer > an inexpensive upgrade to 4.0 (or even to 3.2!). Basically, they've > just ignored us. As I said, there will be no 3.2 from Microport. Now they are projecting the normal 4.0 full featured release sometime in the late fall. I already placed my order today. (its about time :-) Cheers! - randy Usenet: randy@rls.uucp Bangpath: ...!osu-cis!rls!randy Internet: rls!randy@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu %CC-I-ANACRONISM, The operator is an obsolete form and may not be portable.