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From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: unix on a '386
Keywords: Not Microport
Message-ID: <207@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 88 02:31:49 GMT
References: <200002@hpmcaa.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
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In article <200002@hpmcaa.HP.COM> marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) writes:
>Anybody out there using un*x on a '386 machine?
>
>Ideal would be to run DOS as a task. Anyone have experience with
>VP/ix or Merge386? Recommendations?
>
>thanks,
>
>marco              

I have VP/ix for SCO Xenix 386 but I must admit I have not installed it
yet.  I am intimately familiar with Microport V/386 and Merge/386 and I
will repeat my opinion, I would not dignify it by calling it excrement.
I wasted a lot of time, effort, money, and grief with it.  I am equally
familiar wiyh the Locus effort for AT&T's 6300 PLUS and it is a smooth
and effortless product.  That was a large part of my rationale when I
selected Merge/386, I liked Locus and I liked their work.

It's not fair to try to compare a '286 DOS/Merge product with a '386
effort, the machines are too different.  Where I got derailed was by
buying Microport because I thought Locus was good.  In fairness to
Microport, I have two V/AT (286) systems and I like them just fine. I
will elaborate on why their '386 software is unacceptable (as a non
lawyer, I think it's culpable negligence) by email but I don't think
you want to hear it.  I can also give you two email addresses for
satisfied V/386 users (I never was one) but neither use Merge.  I can
flood you with email addresses of people who feel the same way about
Merge as I do.
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