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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Thinking about buying UNIX for home, be careful w/ Dell
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.212022.8898@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: 19 Jun 91 21:20:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.035738.24551@csn.org> <1991Jun17.000740.24248@nstar.rn.com> <20019@franz.Franz.COM>
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In article <20019@franz.Franz.COM> jdi@sparky.Franz.COM (John D. Irwin) writes:
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>If you can provide ESIX with the boot disk from your current Unix of
>any flavor (except probably Coherent, etc), you can get SVR4 for $395.
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>I have never seen DELL Unix, so I cannot compare the two.  I'm sure DELL
>is an excellent product, however I didn't have the extra $500 lying around.
>

Does the ~$1K DELL product come with an unlimited user license, as
opposed to the 2-user license on the $395 ESIX product?  I think if you
compare apples to apples, they are almost the same price.  The DELL 
product does come with more stuff though, so again, that offsets the
comparison.


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