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From: farber@UDEL-HUEY.ARPA (Dave Farber)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Frustration
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Date: Sat, 25-May-85 18:30:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 25 18:30:54 1985
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I know I should just send this to info-ibmpc, but I hope
by sending it widely to get to people who should hear.

My frustration is about IBM Xenix for the AT.

I usupect that it is a careful plot to kill Xenix by
creating a product that has errors in working and in judgement.

Let me give you two examples.

1. The error reporting of Xenix boot up reports bad cylinder/track
info OFF one cylinder. So unless you are a psychic you will
do the wrong thing and it will still fail. Why oh why cannot
they test their products better ESPECIALLY on a system like the
AT with known disk problems.

2. silly but. The manuals say you must have a touchtone
line for running uucp. Why you may ask. Well I will
tell you. The timeout is et so short on dialing that
with a dial pulse line you time out on a cross country call.

Come now IBM and Microsoft, there is a bit of the USA that
lives with Pulse dialing not like you rich guys.

All in all, I repeat, sounds like a plot to kill Unix
on the part of the Immense Black Mountain (IBM).

Dave