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From: poetry@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (David Goodman)
Date: Mon, 28-Dec-87 17:49:11 EST
Message-ID: <1987Dec28.174911.15313@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: All this Microport Flaming: A solid Vote for XENIX
References: <4610@well.UUCP> <394@ddsw1.UUCP> <255@spl1.UUCP> <2398@killer.UUCP> <438@cimcor.UUCP> <441@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <2589@killer.UUCP>
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>Personally, I think those who expect the Microport product to be as bugfree
>and stable as the other packages are just being unrealistic.
>

Could any of the early users of SUN OS tell me how good this operating system
was in its infancy?  I wasn't there when this happened.


>...	I'd rather have a buggy product I can
>afford to buy than a perfect product I can only admire in magazine ads and
>USENET discussions.
>

I'm a user of Microport V/AT and don't drive a red Ferrari but this
is an utterly preposterous argument.