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From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: NORTON or SUMII, which to buy??
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Date: 6 Dec 90 12:42:23 GMT
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In article <2427.275b9034@waikato.ac.nz>, phil@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> There are different ulilities offered by each product, so it depends upon what
> you want.  SUM II has Encryption, Backup, Quick Copy, and Hard Disk Partition
> (of debatable value -- I use it successfully).

Due to the STUPID American export restrictions, "international" versions
of SUM-II don't have the encryption utility. Of course, this in no way
lowered the price I paid (around $180).

> Norton has other goodies that
> SUM II doesn't have.  I posted a full list about a month ago.  I can email it
> or if flooded with requests, repost.

I would like to see a list of NU's features - I missed the list.

-- 
Nick Rothwell,  Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
                nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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