Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!dhw68k!zardoz.cpd.com!everex!jde
From: jde@everex.uucp (-Jeff Ellis())
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Thinking about buying UNIX for home, be careful w/ Dell
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.154611.20840@everex.uucp>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:46:11 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.123605.12138@crash.cts.com>
Organization: ESIX Computers, Inc.
Lines: 17

In article <1991Jun11.123605.12138@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>If you bought Dell's SysV/386 R4, I'm not the least bit surprised that you got
>it on tape.  If you were to buy it on disks, you would end up with a wooden
>pallet full of disks.  There's a reason that SysV R4 isn't distributed on
>disks, and that's because it is huge.  The only vendor to my knowledge that
>is distributing their SysV R4 on disk is UHC and you get a lot of disks, on
>the order of 50 if I'm not mistaken for the complete system.

Esix 4.0.3 Rev A is shipped on 5.25", 3.5" or 60 meg tapes. It is a lot
of disks for the systems but some people can buy if they had to add the price
of a tape drive to the price of 4.0.


-- 
Jeff Ellis		ESIX SYSTEM/V  
                        UUCP:uunet!zardoz!everex!jde
                        Internet: everex!jde%zardoz.uucp@ics.uci.edu