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From: ron@vsedev.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Serial Port problems with microPort System V/286 2.2U
Message-ID: <700@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 07:43:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: vsedev.700
Posted: Mon Jun 29 07:43:16 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jun-87 02:52:07 EDT
References: <307@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <6102@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <479@qiclab.UUCP> <318@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <149@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@vsedev.UUCP (The Super User)
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Xref: utgpu comp.sys.ibm.pc:4495 comp.unix.questions:2664

In article <149@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (sysop) writes:
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|In article <318@xios.XIOS.UUCP>, greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks) writes:
|| In article <354@micropen> dave@micropen.UUCP writes:
|| >"Oh yes, the streaming tape driver
|| >will be ready *any* day now" -- Microport 8/'86, 9/'86, 10/'86, 11/'86, 
|| >12/'86, 1/'87, 2/'87, 3/'87, 4/'87, 5/'87, 6/'87, ...
|| 
|| Bell Technologies puts out a very nice QIC tape unit for the PC.  The
|| controller takes a full slot.  [...] You
|| can also get outboard QIC drives.
|| 
|
|This is all very well and good, but why does it cost $2500? If 
|Microport and Bell Technologies have a business relationship, why
|would Microport kill that by supporting inexpensive tape drives?
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What costs $2,500? Bell's tape unit w/software to drive it for SCO
Xenix, and Microport UNIX is only a little over $1,000.  BTW this unit 
works under DOS as well for those of you that have a DOS partition or 
an extra fixed disk.

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