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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Buying UNIX for a clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.213650.17656@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Apr28.025344.27664@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr28.125712.1870@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr28.235013.8239@virtech.uucp>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 21:36:50 GMT

In article <1991Apr28.235013.8239@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>Try calling them with a problem, even within the first 30 days.  Like
>AT&T, the first question will be "what is the serial number of the Dell 
>computer that is having the problem?"
>
>I'm not bashing Dell.  It sounds like a good product and the decision 
>to only support thier own hardware is a basic business decision. If I
>was in their shoes I would probably have made the same decision.
>                                                Sterling, VA 22170 

I agree that their philosophy makes sense.  By supporting only their own
hardware, they have a better sense of what works and what doesn't work.
This being the case, though, it pretty much makes Dell Unix's existence
irrelevent to a large percentage of comp.unix.sysv386 readers.  I'd be
willing to bet that a pretty small percentage of us has Dell hardware.
Bringing up DELL unix as a comparison to Esix, ISC or SCO doesn't amount
to much I guess.


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