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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell System V.4
Message-ID: <2493@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 04:50:10 GMT
References: <335@srchtec.UUCP> <12743@uudell.dell.com> <341@srchtec.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <341@srchtec.UUCP> mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond) writes:

| I was just curious how well vendors support the GNU project.  Dell's Unix seems
| to be just about the Best on the market, if only it would run (support) on
| other boxes.  The price for a limited-user system is great $1000<.
| 
| Maybe I should get that flier back out.

  Actually the Dell V.4 seems to run okay on a number of non-Dell boxes.
The only machine which gave us trouble in testing was a real Dell,
although the problem was not with their hardware, just part of the
learning process on EISA. Anyone else learning to hate it?
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me