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From: root@spdyne.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport Status
Message-ID: <1700020@spdyne>
Date: 12 Apr 89 22:54:00 GMT
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Nf-From: spdyne.UUCP!root    Apr 12 16:54:00 1989



> So, for all those Microport users - there is a way to make good
> on what otherwise could be a bad situation.  Here it is:
> 
> INTERACTIVE will provide a 75% credit against the purchase of 386/ix products
>for each Microport product purchases.  Therefore if someone purchased a system
> from Microport at $500 then INTERACTIVE will give a $375 credit against the
> purchase of 386/ix!!! and for resellers its discountable....and for how ever
> many systems you want to upgrade.....and they will honor the remainder of the
> Microport support contracts for users upgrading to 386/ix.
> 
> Not bad.
> 
> Orders can be placed through INTERACTIVE's Distribution group in Hollis, NH
> at 800-537-5324.

    One question tho.... Do I have to send in all my U-port disks/manuals etc?
U-port has (had?) *much* better manuals than Interactive.  As I recall I paid
about $1,500 for all the Uport stuff, thus a credit of $1125 for 386/ix?
[If I don't have to send back the disks, I might pick up the system to get the
text prep...]

    I presume, that If I am assigning the registration rights to interactive,
that I will lose the greenhills compiler?  Does interactive work on 25 sector
drives?  I have a Compaq and If they don't I lose at least 20 Meg of storage
space off my 65 Meg drive. [And I have to screw around with it the way
that I had to with Uport..]

    Sounds like a good deal, except that I have used interactive before...

    I'd like to pick up the text prep tools from interactive, but I don't care
for the rest of the system.  [A wonderful example is the way that 'su' is
broke: if you su [to any user or root], from any tty other than the console,
it will log you off!... Might as well rm /bin/su... I tried to su to uucp once
to fixup the Systems file... Boom - login prompt...]

    -Chert Pellett
     root@spdyne