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From: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.microport,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T 386 UNIX Vr3.1
Message-ID: <441@uport.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 03:00:33 GMT
References: <145@carpet.WLK.COM>
Reply-To: keith@uport.UUCP (Keith Hankin)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article <145@carpet.WLK.COM> bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>I have been a frequent promoter of AT&T's 386 UNIX and a vociferous
>criticizer of Microport's System V/386.
>
>I was also asked, numerous times, why I felt the product was superior to
>Microport V/386.  I'll not do a numbered list because that might look like
>a flame and I'm through with that.
>AT&T is shipping Vr3.1 which means streams and things that will be available
>Real Soon Now.

Microport is shipping Streams now.

>
>That covers the cosmetics, why do I think that AT&T is better?  Their
>compiler compiles C-Tree (an incredibly portable package) and the binary
>that comes out works.  Microport compiles it but breaks when sscanf is
>called.  AT&T's compiler doesn't write code that the assembler can't assemble.

Microport's C compiler is THE SAME COMPILER that you get from AT&T.  Any
problems with Microport's compiler should be the same with AT&T.
Perhaps you got a very new version of the AT&T C compiler, one which we
do not yet have to ship.

>AT&T's uugetty doesn't get into debates with an intelligent modem who wants
>to talk about answering the phone.

Microport's uugetty is THE SAME as AT&T's uugetty.  Perhaps you were trying
the uugetty on a ttyM device rather than tty device.  Microport has not
added any special hooks into uugetty for the ttyM devices (just the standard
AT&T code).

>AT&T's terminfo for the AT console doesn't get lost when you're in vi.

What problems have you been having with vi?  It should be okay.  There
was a new terminfo posted on our BBS, which was incorrect.  Are you using
this, perhaps?

>AT&T ships unlimited users standard, not extra.

And their price includes the unlimited user fee.  If we just had one
version, it would be the price of the unlimited version, but instead we
chose to have another version to save users who did not need the unlimited
capabilities some money.  The extra cost, by the way is royalties and 
reflects our licensing agreement with AT&T.

>AT&T supports big disk drives.

Microport Version 3.0, shipping in two weeks, will have RLL and ESDI support.

>Bill Kennedy  Internet:  bill@ssbn.WLK.COM
>                Usenet:  { killer | att | rutgers | uunet!bigtex }!ssbn!bill

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Keith Hankin	keith@uport
Microport Systems