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From: bill@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Does ESIX still not support RLL?
Message-ID: <512@pyrite.nj.pyramid.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 13:30:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.155642.1586@shambala.uucp> <1991Apr22.210543.27730@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: bill@pyrite.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
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In article <1991Apr22.210543.27730@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>In article <1991Apr21.155642.1586@shambala.uucp> kentkar@shambala.uucp (Kent Karrer) writes:
>>It is nice to see a unix vendor offering an upgrade to R4.0 at a reasonable
>>cost. But does ESIX still not support RLL disk controllers?
>>
>
>The myth that ESIX doesn't support RLL controllers is a bit of marketing
>hype.  ESIX documentation states unequivocally that ESIX does support
>RLL, and I can unequivocally state that both 5.3.2.C and 5.3.2.D both
>support RLL very nicely.
>

But when I call them and ask if it'll run with my Perstor controller they
refuse to say it will.  I can't see laying out the money for a copy of
Unix that may not work on my machine.  If they could tell me that it works
the check would be in the mail today.

Bill
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