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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: UHC Info/Re: UN*X Vendors -- big list (long)
Message-ID: <2288@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:25:54 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.163553.2191@arcturus.uucp> <16355@s.ms.uky.edu> <1990Nov13.120547.22443@nstar.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1990Nov13.120547.22443@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:

| Don't forget Intel release 4.0 - $1395 from the programmers connection which
| includes everything listed above (I'm not sure on text processing - but
| I believe it also is included).

  The prices quoted for Dell V.4 in _UNIX Today_ were $1100 2 users,
$1300 multiuser. I may be wrong on the first, it might be $1k even, I've
seen both prices.

  I'm very impressed with Dell, the list of problems and limitations is
gratifyingly short, and I have found myself amazed at what works, and
how much extra stuff has been added. This looks like a dump of some
hacker's personal system, with lots of GNU stuff, pbmplus, etc.

  Not that any of the V.4 systems I've tried have been perfect, but I am
finding few cases of the system "falling dead" when there are problems.
No kernel dumps, although there is a lot of stuff which violates the
"rule of least amazement."
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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