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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Garnering info on SUN 386i
Message-ID: <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 16:43:38 GMT
References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <18509@neabbs.UUCP> richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) writes:
|I hate to point out the obvious, but have your read the Byte review?
|In short DOS programs worked well, easy install, windowing
|environment, standard networking.
| 
|Unfortunately, NO attention was payed to available UNIX applications
|(or should I say SunOs?)

This may be a bit late in the reply chain but I read the review.  The
reviewer was obviosly an MS-DOS person with little or no UNIX
knowledge.  He gave a good review of the MS-DOS emulation under
SunView but didn't seem to realize that the 386i is doing a lot more
than just running the emulator.  Maybe I'm being overcritical but I
thought they could have done a better job.

Along a similar line, check out John Dvorak's article in August PC
magazine concerning UNIX on PC-style machines.  I found the article
interesting in that he got an awful lot of facts wrong about the
history of UNIX and what it's meant for.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu