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From: kevinr@june.cs.washington.edu (Kevin Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Get a Wyse 80386 box w/SCO Xenix?
Message-ID: <4040@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 88 02:24:10 GMT
References: <139@amcad.UUCP> <122@thelink.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevinr@uw-june.UUCP (Kevin Ross)
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Keywords: wyse 386 xenix

In article <122@thelink.UUCP> marlin@thelink.UUCP (Marlin Sheffield) writes:
>From article <139@amcad.UUCP>, by billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton):
>> We are considering purchase of the following system:
>> o   Wyse 3216 with 4meg static column RAM
>
>Bill - 
>    Accidently I just had a look at the  16/32 bit static memory 
>card that Wyse uses. .....
>    The board had at least 12-15 little black wires hand soldiered to the 
>legs of chips and running all over the board to correct routing problems.
>If I could wait -- I'd give them time to clean up the design and get into
>a more normalized production mode before buying one!

I also have a WYSE 386, and noticed that the memory board was constructed in 
an obvious bug fix. We also had problems getting the board to accept the full
2 megs that it was supposed to. 

However, all it took was one phone call to WYSE, and they sent out the 
revised card federal express, and we are happy as can be. No computer company
is immune to the wirewrap fixes. Usually, they are fairly good about replacing
these boards, if necessary. All things considered, the wyse 386 is a very nice
machine. The one we have has a 40 meg CDC drive, 2 megs of memory, and a
computone 8 port serial board. Runs Xenix 2.2 (eventually gets a 386 upgrade).

I have had as many as 8 people using the machine, and it handles them very
gracefully (slower, but not too bad). I would reccomend the machine.

Kevin Ross
kevinr@june.cs.washington.edu
...uw-beaver!kevinr@june