Xref: utzoo comp.unix.sysv386:8610 comp.unix.xenix.sco:2668
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!uunet!infonode!xanth.b11.ingr.com!richard
From: richard@xanth.b11.ingr.com (Richard Griffiths )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: UHC, Esix, ISC, SCO, which ?
Keywords: EMail opinions please
Message-ID: <1991May31.143443.8597@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 31 May 91 14:34:43 GMT
References: <1260@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> <1424@necis.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@infonode.ingr.com (Usenet Administrator)
Reply-To: richard@xanth.b11.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL
Lines: 22

In article <1424@necis.UUCP>, jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips) writes:
|> In article <1260@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) writes:
|>    > [...]
|>    >I have been looking for a 386 system to run UNIX on and thought that
|>    >the hardest decision would be the hardware, silly me, it turned out
|>    >to be to operating system.
|>    > [...]
|>    >So I have sort of decided on Esix and have found an Australian
|>    >distributor for it (have not for the other two).
|>    >
|>    >Can anyone enlighten me to any major differences [...]
|> I'm not sure about this, but I thought that ESIX only ran on Everex platforms.
|> If so, you're constrained to one hardware vendor.  Does anybody know if this
|> is true?

ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE!  You may be hard pressed to find someone running ESIX on an Everex platform.  I use a noname 386 clone and have never had any complaints with ESIX.


-- 
Richard A. Griffiths              ...uunet!ingr!b11!xanth!richard   (UUCP)
Intergraph Corp.                  richard@b11.ingr.com          (Internet)
"Cynical optimism - a philosophical palindrome".