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From: bhj@bhjat.UUCP (Burt Janz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wendin-DOS
Message-ID: <177@bhjat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 01:01:08 GMT
References: <460@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Organization: BHJ Associates, Nashua, NH
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In article <460@wa3wbu.UUCP>, john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
> 
>      The blurb goes on to say that they also offer PC/VMS a VAX-like
> operating system for the PC and PCNX, a Unix clone for the PC. Each of
> these also sells for $99 and comes complete with source code. I'd be
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You do indeed get source code... for the utilities.  You have to buy another
$99.00 package to get the source to the kernel.  Neither one compiled
correctly using Microsoft C V4.0.

I spent quite a lot of time on the phone with the folks at Wendin.  For that
matter, they used my system to test multi-user login via modem.  It does
really work.

You need at least an AT at 10mhz to get PC performance, but you definitely
can run more than one task at a time, shove tasks into the background, and
have more than one user on the system at a time.

I tested Wendin-DOS during their "you buy it for $20.00 and help us debug
it" beta test.  The only reason that I tested it was that they sent it to
me for nothing.  I no longer do business with Wendin, as I feel that
charging customers for the beta version, asking for bug reports, and then
charging them AGAIN for the FIXED version was a tacky business practice.

BTW, their PC-UNIX was MUCH better than the VMS.  And, the internal calls to
the utilities match almost one-for-one with the VMS libraries.

Burt Janz
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