ESIX and MCA
John C. Archambeau
jca at pnet01.cts.com
Fri Nov 23 09:36:10 AEST 1990
bill at bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>Well Coherenet is NOT Unix. And as far as '286 Unix goes (or Xenix), it's
>a dead issue as far a major vendors are concerned.
>
>I have a site with many '286 machines. Using Maynard Maynstream tape
>backups. Wanted to go to the 2.3.2 version of Xenix instead of the 2.2.3.
>Maynard said the decided to support only '386 machines. When I asked about
>all their old users with '286s I got sort of "Yah, we found that out" and
>"we finally decided to do a driver". I have been trying for over 3 months
>to get an answer of when. Now my phone calls don't even get returned.
>
>If you are planning on running Xenix/Unix/*ix in anything less than a '386
>you are looking to have to be able to support yourself. My Xenix vendor
>even indicated that the Xenix '386 support is hard to get, as it's all
>going Unix '386 on SCO's side.
SCO is supposedly keeping Xenix support alive. But I don't trust SCO one bit.
Inspite of what SCO is doing to Xenix, given the choice of either Unix or
Xenix, I'd buy Xenix.
>Well, if you want that kind of support maybe you better not think about
>using Unix! :-)
MicroPort seems to be doing alright in the 286 department, but of course,
that's a moot point if you're running SCO Xenix 286.
There is one thing that does tick me off about uPort though, uPort 286 doesn't
have any sort of networking support.
Maybe I should restate what I'm looking for. I know that no matter what Unix
vendor you go with, you're going to get the business in the tech support
department. I want a solid enough Unix that I don't have to go screaming to
tech support every few days or so.
// JCA
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