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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Buying UNIX for a clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.173134.11376@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 17:31:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.025344.27664@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr28.125712.1870@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr28.235013.8239@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr29.213650.17656@unixland.uucp>
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bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:

>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.

yes - but if Dell's base machine is a 386/33 with AMI bios and Adaptec 1542B
- which is standard hardware in my book - who cares?

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