Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ndcheg!ndmath!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Dell and Dell 386SX feedback sought Summary: VP/ix Message-ID: <511251@nstar.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 90 11:41:40 GMT References: <670004@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> <2146@sunquest.UUCP> Organization: Northern Star, Notre Dame, IN USA Lines: 16 In article <2146@sunquest.UUCP>, whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes: > stevek@hpfcmgw.UUCP writes: > > The second bad experience I had involved vp/ix. Before buying the system, I > asked the sales rep how good vp/ix was. Her initial response was basically > "it runs every DOS program with no problems". I was astounded by this and I > asked her to check further and verify this. She checked further and replied We have VP/ix here at nstar - and use it daily to run a DOS based BBS under Interactive Unix (2.02) without problems. As a matter of fact, the 386/ix release of VP/ix has run every DOS application that I have tried. -- The Northern Star Public Access Unix Site, Notre Dame, Indiana USA uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry internet: larry@nstar USR HST 219-287-9020 * PEP 219-289-3745 * Hayes V9600 219-289-0286