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From: tbetz@spies.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.0 killed my Xenix system!!
Summary: Just a few words of follow-up a few days later...
Message-ID: <334@spies.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 02:10:27 GMT
References: <8461@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: tbetz@spies.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc.
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Quoth tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz - me at another site) in <8461@dasys1.UUCP>:
|WARNING!! There may be some serious problems using WP 5.0 under VP/ix!
| 
|I just ran into this today, haven't come across a resolution yet, but be
|forewarned:  Having just installed VP/ix, I went to install WP 5.0. (11-15)

[... tale of freezup and subsequent death of Xenix system deleted ...]

Just in case it looks to you like I'm saying the combination of WP 5.0 and
VP/ix turned my motherboard into a PROM burner, no, I am not saying that.

Only that WP's freezeup under VP/ix contributed to the ultimate death of the 
3216.

Current working hypothesis holds that the 3216 (the third I've been shipped,
and the first one on which I could initialize the HD) had an incipient flaw, 
perhaps a loose connection, that the power-down/power-up cycle triggered.

I'm waiting impatiently for Wyse to come up with a fourth (and FINAL!) machine
before I reach any conclusions; though I am pricing an equivalent HP system...

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