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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Prentice-Hall's Return Policy
Message-ID: <401@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 09:58:11 EST
Article-I.D.: prairie.401
Posted: Thu Jan 22 09:58:11 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Jan-87 07:08:07 EST
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Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Organization: Prairie Computing, Madison, Wisconsin
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In article <1223@whuts.UUCP> tes@whuts.UUCP (STERKEL) writes:
>I have seen no announcements for AT&T
>UNIX(tm) for IBM-AT, clones or otherwise.  Please send me the
>product announcement if I am wrong and I will research the
>and post the refund policies; otherwise, please admit the
>cheap shot.

   Microport Systems of Scotts Valley, CA. sells AT&T System V/286
(System V Release 2) under the name System V/AT, for the PC/AT and
compatibles.  Thus, this is not officially sold by AT&T, but, if
we are to believe the ubiquitous copyright notices, is certainly
AT&T Unix (System V/286 forms the basis for the 6300+ Unix that
IS sold by AT&T).

   I suspect, in answer to the original question, that Microport
would try very hard (i.e. put programmers on it) to make SV/AT
work with almost any reasonable compatible, and as a last resort
would probably take the package back.  I cannot be sure, however.
If you're interested, you can call them at 1-800-722-8649.

   By the way, as a comparison, this OS sells for about $400,
complete.  Minix sounds great as far as it goes, but if you have
an AT and would like to use extended memory (and large model programs,
or didn't you notice?), this might be a better choice.


-- 
    Dan Frank
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