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From: bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Powerful machines at home (was Re: R.I.P. BYTE:)
Message-ID: <151@carpet.WLK.COM>
Date: 15 Sep 88 06:08:51 GMT
References: <1988Sep2.181008.6537@ateng.uucp> <4664@cbmvax.UUCP> <743@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
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In article <743@proxftl.UUCP> bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <4664@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:

[ price info about a Wyse 386, software naked ]

>And a UNIX for something around $1000. (Less if you
>use Microport, more if you use SCO.)

That simply isn't so.  I paid cash money for each and item for item,
feature for feature, SCO is more stable and economical than Microport.
I can speak nearly without prejudice about both (have bought each) and
across the board SCO is less expensive.  The least expensive "real"
System V is from AT&T (that's what I use).  For $700 or so you get
unlimited runtime and development which is a lot less than Microport
or SCO.  For another $500 you get Simul-Task '386 (aka VP/ix) and it
works, unlike Microport Merge/386 (for roughly the same money).  If
you don't need DOS, you can get a perfectly healthy UNIX, documented,
with support, unlimited logins for a lot less than either Microport
or SCO.  The remarks about "healthy", "documented", "support", and
"unlimited logins" were *NOT* directed at SCO, they have all of that.
-- 
Bill Kennedy  Internet:  bill@ssbn.WLK.COM
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