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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ESIX and MCA
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Date: 17 Nov 90 04:29:28 GMT
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barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:
>Here here! This is especially true when certain OS vendors choose to
>leave important configuration issues out of their EISA supplement
>documentation.
>
>I intend to eventually post a summary of the problems/issues incountered
>during our installation of the SCO Unix/386 product on the Compaq
>SystemPro and the solutions/workarounds that we are currently 
>implementing, as soon as all the problems are solved.
>
>Which brings me to a question:
>
>Since I haven't read news for a while, has there been any more    
>mention of an EISA mailing list or newsgroup ???

One of the things I have done is rule out getting ESIX for the system that I'm
proposing in the next few months.  Reason being that security hole that was
mentioned awhile back.  Since the machine in question will be used as a
mailhost and gateway, it would be very foolish to use an OS with even the
HINT of a security hole.

Sorry Everex, but if you had a better attitude about fixing things that were
broken, then I would reconsider.  Now I'm looking at SCO, ISC, Dell, Intel,
and UHC.

One of the reasons I was hard nosed on ESIX was the fact that NIS (previously
known as Yellow Pages) is available for ESIX.  Would have made things rather
simple with respect to Sun and PC-NFS integration.

Next question, which Unix vendors (besides Everex) have NIS (Yellow Pages)
available?

 
     // JCA

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