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From: sblair@upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Thinking about buying UNIX for home, be careful w/ Dell
Message-ID: <21493@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 13:50:17 GMT
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|> Maybe they (dell) could make clearer a minimum configuration to install
|> their unix - assuming that it is not in their brochure, but they do have
|> the 30 day money back policy... and I could probably find someone with
|> a tape drive (not to mention I would hate to sit through a 4-6 hour install
|> with a huge number of floppies).
-- 
After Madison's posting yesterday, I checked our info server, affectionately
known as: info@dell.dell.com, and discovered that if one is to send email
to it, ommitted was *any* reference as to what type of media our O/S
comes on. As of last night, it now properly reflects that we release on
150Mb tapes, w/ 2 boot/system floppies.

Apologies to anyone this may have confused; it was *not* intended to
cause undue hardship to anyone who is a current, or potentially future
customer.

I also asked Madison to give me details about his order, sales rep, etc.
so that we can clarify in their minds this problem; thus it would
affect no one else in the future.


I'll work up a "minimum configuration", and add it to our info server...


Steve Blair	DELL	UNIX	DIVISION sblair@upurbmw.dell.com
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