Taking risks on software (ISC)
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Fri Dec 1 00:56:31 AEST 1989
In article <[25745ed1:160.9]comp.unix.i386;1 at nstar.UUCP>, akcs.larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
> >In article <[25711bb0:160.7]comp.unix.i386;1 at nstar.UUCP> akcs.larry at nstar.UU
> CP
[ lots of stuff about how bad 386/ix is deleted ]
Well, with all the ragging going on about 386/ix I guess it's time for someone
who is happy with the product to stand up and say so.
So here I am.
I have had 386/ix 2.0.2 running on a multitude of different 386 systems (20MHz,
33MHz, import, USA, etc). I use all kinds of add on boards including graphics
display cards that are 1600x1200 monochrome, multi-port serial cards, ethernet
cards, tape drives, high performance disk controllers, etc.)
I have been very satisfied with the reliability and performance of 386/ix.
I run NFS, tcp-ip, X11, VPix without any problems. I have run xenix software
on this system without any problems. In fact, due to a development requirement
I even loaded my Xenix system in to a 386/ix file system and ran in a Xenix
environment by performing a chroot to the xenix root.
My only perk with Interactive is that they don't let me call them when I had
a problem. I had to go through my distributer who knows much less then I do
about the product. Of course, I don't want to have to pay for the ability
to call Interactive since I already paid $3,000 for my software.
All in all, for me 386/ix works as well as, if not better than, I expected.
BTW, I also have Bell Tech Unix 3.2, and SCO Xenix 2.3.2 and I much prefer
386/ix to both of them.
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