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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Upgrade from Sys V/AT to 386 ???
Message-ID: <210@twwells.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 88 05:15:21 GMT
References: <672@wa3wbu.UUCP> <2509@cloud9.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
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In article <2509@cloud9.UUCP> dts@cloud9.UUCP (Daniel Senie) writes:
: At the time, I decided to wait at least until the next major rev. came out
: (which it just did), but still am not sure if I want to sink another $500
: plus into microport. One note from the conversation with the sales type
: which will give people a good chuckle: I asked why I should buy from microport
: over ATT, Bell, etc., and was told that the reason was that "Microport does
: such an excellent job of support!" (If that were true, I may have actually
: gotten some use out of my 286 version!).

Actually, they *are* giving good support. I have nothing but good
words for John Plocher. Each time I've talked to him, I've either got
good results or a satisfactory answer to why it couldn't be done. I
know this is in marked contrast to their past, so you should at least
try talking with other *current* customers to see if my experience is
duplicated elsewhere.

I'm running their latest on my Zenith '386 and have no major problems
with it (other than the inode problem, but that's AT&T's fault, not
Microport's; John says they're working on it).  This is in spite of
the nonsupported VGA card I'm using, and my very demanding nature.
:-) Ok, I'm a little irritated at the slowness of the disk driver, and
there's this little bug in the console driver, ... but I have worse
problems with our Sun's, and I've managed to live with them. I can
live with this nitpicky stuff on my personal machine. For a while.

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Bill
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