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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.222411.15914@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 1 Dec 90 22:24:11 GMT
References: <1990Nov23.080906.24510@robobar.co.uk> <27519123.34A2@tct.uucp> <16068@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <16068@bfmny0.BFM.COM> by tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff):
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| In article <27519123.34A2@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
| >Unless we, the developers and users, keep the pressure on SCO, there
| >will never be a C2-free version of "SCO Unix."  And that would be a
| >pity.  Let's keep reminding them of what we want.
| 
| With all due respect, I'm still wondering why the marketplace so
| desperately needs a fixed SCO UNIX in particular.  There are only about
| seven other vendors out there, just about all of whom do it right.  You
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Because of all the companies with "IBM syndrome" (including Altos, d*mn them!)
who will only accept those three magic letters, in this case "SCO".  In the
case of Altos, I know for a fact that they're getting raked over the coals by
buyers of the Series 5000 because of Altos's decision to go with SCO UNIX; but
they're bound and determined to stay with SCO because it's SCO (you'd think
that was the spelling for "God").  And *we* have no choice in the matter
unless we want to go with less trustworthy third-party add-ons (in particular,
I have yet to see a third-party serial port board that was stable).

I'm just about at the point where I'm ready to start evaluating third-party
hardware looking for something that *does* work, and switch to a real UNIX.
SCO "UNIX" isn't.

++Brandon
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