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From: calhoun@usaos.uucp (Warren D. Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Compatibility lists
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.050252.3159@usaos.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 90 05:02:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov11.143254.2666@pegasus.com> <1990Nov11.190952.24003@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: The U.S. Army Ordnance School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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In <1990Nov11.190952.24003@portia.Stanford.EDU>
	fangchin@portia.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:

>>What can we do to get the current compatibility lists from Esix, ISC,
>>SCO, Dell, UHC and the others made available here?

>What I would like to suggest here is that people contribute their experience
>with different hardware using all flavor of 386 Unices. So that other then 
>these official compatibility lists that you can get from unix vendors, we
>here can have a net-confirmed compatiblity list for all 386 Unices.  Anyone
>who wants to take up such a project?   Ideally such a list would be distributed
>like the really helpful FAQ from virtual technology.

  I have been stung by the "compatability bug" more than once.  I think that
this idea has merit and could probably be coerced into maintaining it.  I am
not a *nix guru or anything, but I can afford the time to collect and reduce
the compatability data and make a periodic posting.  If I could find an archive
server package, I could even set up a hardware/software compatability archive
from which requests for specific combinations could be made.

[Twist my arm a little]

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