Bell Tech 386 SysVr3 (really a put-down of Xenix)

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <7013 at icdi10.uucp> fr at icdi10.uucp (Fred Rump from home) writes:

| [ It could be that you don't see a lot of traffic on problems with Xenix
| [ because a lot of people struggling with Xenix don't have access to
| [ Usenet because they can't get the gol-durned uucp to work.  When you're
| [ effectively cut off from the rest of humanity, your voice is small and
| [ thin indeed.

	I wouldn't claim that uucp on early versions (like 2.1.2) were
pretty grim, but the "Telebit" uucp is solid as far as I can tell. I
would be lieve that many sites can't support news due to disk space.

| I'm sure many of the voices you hear from Xenix folks are from developers and
| VARS who individually represent many other users of their systems. While
| conversly many of the 286/386 sys5 talkers bought one for themselves to play
| with because they use big daddy at work and it was cheap.

	Actually a 20MHz 386+387 compares favorably with a Sun 3/160,
given the same memory size. It's a little faster and a lot cheaper. And
there's a LOT more software available at a reasonable price.

| little time - just a little.  In our case we have users all over this land.
| We feed them what is meaningful.  Most talk here is entirely too technical for
| the Xenix user.

	I don't see much between the average users of any system... the
ones in schools and research labs tend to have the same level regardless
of the machine on which they host. The types who use it as a tool are
also the same anywhere. People who run spreadsheets and payrolls and
stuff usually don't want to hear anything technical.

	In general I agree with you, but I suspect that the average
Xenix user is perhaps a bit more technical than I conclude from your
posting. If I misread the posting the fault is mine.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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