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From: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any out there have Venix?
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Date: 7 Jan 88 03:07:26 GMT
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In article <5462@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes:
>Any body out there remember Venix/86? A friend of mine who had a copy
>wasn't using it any more, so he sold it to me. It is version 2.0 and
>came out when XT's only had 10MB drives. I've been playing with the
>partition table on the hard disk some in the hope that Venix will
>see all of my 20MB disk. If any body out there has had an experiences
>with Vneix, I'd like to correspond with you electronically in order
>to gain some more knowledge. As a side note - don't be afraid to get
>technical is any message you send to me, I do UNIX for a living. 
>(I manage a VAX8600 and 19 SUN3s)
>
>-- 
>j                                UUCP: ...ihnp4!msudoc!eecae!lawitzke
>"And it's just a box of rain..." ARPA: lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu  (35.8.8.151)


   All VENIX/86 fans...

   OK, you may dislike the DEC Rainbow, but Larry Campbell and The Boston
   Software Works took over the distribution rights to the VENIX/Rainbow
   version from VenturCom and since then Enhanced VENIX/Rainbow V2.0 has
   appeared with a wealth of great features.  Some of the features include
   disk support up to 71mb for the Rainbow as well as improved terminal
   handling and virtual consoles!   Other features include a whole slew of
   UNIX utilites, a spreadsheet, uucp software, and graphics software.

   Contact him at the address below and, while your machine may not be a
   Rainbow, he may be able to help you out a bit or point you at he people
   or resources that you need.  He could, of course, not want to help since
   I haven't asked him about this.

   Larry will probably upset if he gets flooded with VENIX questions.
   However, since this is the first VENIX question I have seen posted in
   a long time, I don't think he'll mind that much.  Tell him I sent you
   so he can call and yell at me.  This is sort of "free advertising" and
   I have no connection with him other than a couple of e-mails.

   You may want to purchase a used Rainbow at good price and get VENIX/
   Rainbow and use you PC as a terminal.  I reviewed the Rainbow
   version for The DEC MicroLetter and I had 4 virtual consoles running
   with a remote terminal running at 9600 baud!  5 Simultaneous users.
   Also, note that the !maynard node in the net address below is a
   DEC Rainbow running VENIX with uucp software on a 71mb system with 896K
   RAM.

   Contact:

   Larry Campbell
   The Boston Software Works, Inc.
   120 Fulton Street, Boston, MA, 02109
   1-617-367-6846
   Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 
   uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell

   
   Enjoy,
   Alan

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