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From: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XENIX VS Micoport
Message-ID: <366@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 01:13:42 GMT
References: <16217@watmath.waterloo.edu> <166@bhjat.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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In article <166@bhjat.UUCP> bhj@bhjat.UUCP (Burt Janz) writes:
>> 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...


	Igloo, too, has 2 serial ports, a no-name AT clone board and some
monster disk drives. It, too, has news running, but ONLY when Bill shuts
down EVERY user to do the poll. He's running at 2400 baud now, and going to
9600 shortly. Microport will NOT EVER keep up with this speed.
	Last weekend, I managed to get a 20Mhz '386 system on loan, just to
see if the problems were Igloo's or Microport's. While UUCPing some mail
between igloo and ddsw1, at the console I catted a large file. BOOM! went the
poll.
	The problems get much worse if you use the 'unflicker' command to
turn off console snow. It would appear that Microport does a CLI and WAITS,
twiddling its thumbs with interrupts turned off, untill the vertical retrace
happens. This is a VERY dumb thing to do.
	For $600, I expect something that WORKS. If you have $600 to throw
away, kind si Burt, please throw it over to igloo so we can buy XENIX and
get a system that WORKS for a change.
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  John Welch                             ..{codas,ihnp4}!ddsw1!igloo!jjw
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