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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Subject: Re: SVR4.0 (and hardware choices)
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.193950.5148@ico.isc.com>
Summary: more the problem of hardware vendors
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
References: <9104051959.AA23768@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr22.175643.47521@cc.usu.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1991 19:39:50 GMT

jrd@cc.usu.edu writes:
[various serious hardware hassles deleted]

> 	My feeling is the Unix vendors are destroying their own market by
> hiding the true systems components requirments. The "buy Unix, now" hyperbole
> is a little out of hand, particularly if one wants to assemble "equivalent"
> pieces rather than purchasing a turnkey system at triple the real price...

I see the problem more at the hardware manufacturers.  Their attitude, all
too often, is "if it doesn't fail on DOS, it works just fine."  It's very
hard for the UNIX world to be able to second-guess all the ways hardware
vendors can botch a design, such that DOS won't find the botch but UNIX
will.  The magic word "equivalent" hides a lot (as I suspect jrd realizes
all too well after his [mis]adventures).
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...While you were reading this, Motif grew by another kilobyte.