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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Microport SVR4 Offer
Message-ID: <44957@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 90 22:06:31 GMT
References: <25@mport.COM> <1990Dec18.233846.3379@ico.isc.com> <1872@fallst.UUCP>
Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: Computer Consoles, Inc., An STC Icon, Rochester, NY
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In article <1872@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
> <Deleted article reference by Dick Dunn asking what is Microport doing
   about V/AT>
>
>Why, they're *selling* that old product.  You can't tell from the sales
>literature if this is the same old release 2.4 the old uPort released
>TWO years ago, but there's no indication that it's not.  Price is $649
>for the 2-user version and $898 for the unlimited version.
>
>It does appear, that they're throwing in DOS-Merge for this price, but,
>as I recall, this never worked anyway...


Just a nit - I used to run Microport V/AT 2.4, I had DOS-Merge version
2.0, it worked for me.  I've since upgraded to a 386, but have gone the
Minix-386 root (guess I'm just an OS hacker at heart!).
-- 
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tvf@frau.UUCP                                |  my pajamas - how he got there I
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