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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Unlimited software warranties
Message-ID: <2W4AD5H@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <8024@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <1991Mar13.021244.2538@ico.isc.com> <VR.9HWB@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Mar14.023417.17464@kithrup.COM>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 22:21:27 GMT

In article <1991Mar14.023417.17464@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
> In article <VR.9HWB@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Show me where it's being sold. How do I vote with my pocketbook if there
> >are no names on the ballot?

> SCO XENIX.  Everyone wanted to go to SysVr3.2; SCO didn't create the market,
> you know.  Despite XENIX being very stable, small, and fast,

And expensive... how much does Xenix cost? More than the low-ball UNIX
systems, back when they were pretty much equivalent (i.e., before demand
paging).

> people wanted
> "real" UNIX.  Because of the features, partially, and partially because of
> the name.

We're still on Pre-SCO Xenix, by the way, at Ferranti.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  `-_-'  peter@ferranti.com
+1 713 274 5180.  'U`  "Have you hugged your wolf today?"