Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!einoed!eismond!oscar From: oscar@eismond.uucp (Carsten Tschach) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Which UNIX? Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 00:10:52 GMT References: <33718@cup.portal.com> Organization: Eismond Computer-Systems, Berlin, West-Germany Lines: 17 Brian_C_McBee@cup.portal.com writes: >I am pondering buying a 386 machine on which to run UNIX, and I am wondering >which UNIX I should buy. ESIX certainly looks like the least expensive SYS V, >but what am I giving up if I go with it? I will probably be using the machine >for software developement, and to run a Public Access Unix. Will DOS-Merge >or something similar run under Esix? Does the TCP/IP include SLIP? Should >I just say f*ck it and spend the extra money for SCO? Any and all horror Nooooooooooo, not SCO - it's so buggy !!! Just try Interactive Version 2.2 - I thought it is much better ! -- "Suddenly there comes a blinding flash....and then comes OSCAR !" INTERNET: tschach@kristall.chemie.fu-berlin.dbp.de UUCP: oscar@eismond.uucp ...!unido!tmpmbx!einoed!eismond!oscar