I was wrong: Enix DOES work with my 300MB disk (re: Which 386 Unix?)

[Phil Hughes]

In article <387 at intek01.UUCP>, mark at intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) writes:

>                                Console multi-screens work, though the 
> keystroke sequence (ALT-PrintScreen-Fn) is more painful than Xenix's.  

Gee I forgot to read the docs and assumed it was the same as XENIX
(ALT-Fn) which I have been using and it works fine.  Interesting.

> Supposedly this is remappable, but I don't have much documentation yet, 
> and what I have (marked "Enix System V 386 Release Notes") is not very 
> impressive: no index, weird organization, etc.  The system comes with
> binary X Windows, which installed OK; it came up when I ran it, but I
> have no docs for it and don't know anything else. 

I harassed EVEREX about the X docs and a few other missing things.  The
X docs are at the printer (being translated from Chinese to English :-) )
and hopefully will appear soon.

> Overall, I'm reserving final judgement, but I think Enix is going to
> work for me.  I'm not sure when they'll be shipping the Real Version,
> but the contact at Everex is Brian Brinkerhoff (415-683-3649).

I hav also been satisfied so far.  I am waiting for more hardware to
try out some other stuff but generally it seems to be solid (although
our 'real' systems are still running XENIX).

Let me add a disclaimer concerning a previous posting I made.  I said
that you get basically the same thing with XENIX, Microport 386, ... .
Although I understood what I was attempting to say I expcet it could have
been misunderstood.  Here is a new version:

  You get the same basic UNIX (as distributed by AT&T).
  The differences are 1) systems administration, 2) 286 binary support,
  3) DOS support, 4) device drivers, 5) enhancements and 5) customer support.  
  So, pick the version that fits you budget and meets your needs.  They
  all are UNIX but they are all almost UNIX.  (clear?)

> I have no affiliation with Everex, other than a satisfied user of their
> tape drive, and a potentially satisfied Enix user.
Me too.
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