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From: colin@handson.UUCP (Colin Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Roell 386/vga Server
Message-ID: <221@handson.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 13:47:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.132628@wsl.dec.com>
Organization: Hands-On Learning Corporation, Burlington, MA
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In article <1991Jun25.132628@wsl.dec.com> skk@netcom.com 
(Stuart Kreitman) writes:
>
>Can anyone comment on the performance and quality of the Roell
>Server for X.V11R4 386 [extended] vga?  I'm interested in how it stacks
>up against ISC's vga.  Is ISC shipping R4 yet?
>

I don't know about the Roell Server for X.V11R4 386 [extended] vga, but I
WILL tell you that ISC is currently claiming that they'll have X11R4 
(and Motif 1.1) ready in DECEMBER! I wouldn't put much faith in that,
however, since that is what they told me a year ago, too. That is, that
R4 would be out LAST December!

It is really a shame that they can't keep even remotely up to date (really -
they get to R4 three months after the rest of the world gets to R5?),
because their products are fundamentally good, but their lack of current
product has prompted me to throw away $30,000 worth of software and
go to ESIX, who has SysV.4, X11R4, and Motif 1.1 today - at a fraction
of ISC's cost!!

That felt good.

Colin (Also, they don't return phone calls) Grant