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From: bhj@bhjat.UUCP (Burt Janz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XENIX VS Micoport
Summary: Oh for crying out loud, already!
	 Quit yer bitchin'!
Message-ID: <166@bhjat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 00:30:33 GMT
References: <16217@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: BHJ Associates, Nashua, NH
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In article <16217@watmath.waterloo.edu>, 221.162.fido!Usenet_area_"Cs.I.Pc"@watmath.waterloo.edu writes:
> > Our group will soon need to purchase one of these two products.  We have
> > no experience in either of these items.  Any recommendations or comments
> > would be appreciated.
> > 
> 
> At the moment, there is no question that uport does not work correctly.
> There is a promise of a newly fixed kernel ( post rev 2.3 ). The promise
> will have to be proven. If you need a product immediately, go to xenix.
> 
> If you can hold off a bit, maybe *this time* uport has fixed it. I sure
> hope so....
> Bill Vajk                                              learn@igloo

Oh, for crying out loud!  I have Microport SV/AT 2.3, and am pleased as all
heck about the state of the software.  I've been using uport since 1.36, and
have noticed nothing BUT improvements in each update of the software.

I'm using a clone AT (no name - bought from the importer...), a Maxtor 1065
and a Quantum 540 (55 and 35mb), 2 serial/2 parallel, 3.5mb, and so forth...

I have BOTH a DOS and UNIX partition on my boot disk, and can boot into
either one from the prompt after the memory check.  I have DOS/Merge
and run 123 and Wordstar (ah, well... it works) under it.

What do you want for ~$600?  Perfection?!?  And, with the number of problems
that I note in comp.unix.xenix, XENIX hacks have NO room to flame on
Microport!

I obviously have news running, am currently porting a spreadsheet over
to UNIX, doing other support work, have someone else dialing into my system
and getting news, and do multiple other tasks under it.

Recently I had a problem with my EGA.  I got a new motherboard, and re-loaded
the entire distribution.  For some reason, I kept getting screwy terminal
rewrites.  First it was 25 line, then 23 line, then no scrolling.  I called
their support line.  Within 1 minute (I ALWAYS time it!) I was talking to
Doug Moran.  I described the problem, and he told me that I needed to
patch the Terminfo "ansi" description.  He read me the patch over the
phone.  I got home, patched "ansi" as he said, and the system worked perfectly.
The phone call was free - they have an 800 line during the day.

Ok.  So, we have a reasonably good product at a reasonably good price, with
(at least) reasonably good support.

That rates at least an A in my book.

I've waited for a LONG time to get through to Microport to ask XENIX questions,
and, more often than not, they DON'T have the answers right there at hand!

So, QUIT FLAMING ON MICROPORT!!!!!  YOU should do so well!!!

Burt Janz
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