WYSE comes through with the goods! (Was: Word Perfect Killed...)

[Tom Betz]

This time last week I had a dead Wyse 3216, a hopelessly lost dealer service
department, and a tired mind.  I was beginning to suspect those nice folks
in Orem of having left a deadly bug in their WP code, and I was generally 
pissed at the world, wondering whether I'd ever get this damn thing running.

My boss was beginning to wonder too, saying things like, "Have you heard any 
rumors about Wyse going out of business?"  He had.

Then I received some email from Steve Van Domelen at Wyse in San Jose, in
reply to one of my earlier requests for information.  In desperation, I 
called him up. 

I'll make a long story short... I'm typing this now on a WY-60 connected to
that 3216 (with a new mother and daughter board set, and the latest rev of
the WD 1007 HD controller chip), through a WY-995 smart card,  via Telix 
3.11 running under VP/ix.

In other words, with Steve coordinating the efforts of Wyse's local service
center (and a little help from a beta version of the 995 drivers, soon to 
be replaced by the final version) this sucker's up and running at 100%.

Thanks, guys.

Oh, the funny 'w' thing I reported earlier under VP/ix was fixed using
stty -ixon -ixoff
... it's a flaw in the beta 995 drivers, and can be removed later,
in case anyone else cares.

Word Perfect (while it has a few annoying problems... like requiring 
the C: psuedo drive, for one) seems to work quite nicely now, both on the
VGA console and on the terminals.  I suspect that I'll be able to dispose
of the C: drive as soon as I get the latest release, just out this week.

I hope.

Thanks again to all who helped.
 
-- 
"Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance.  It's the thing that makes
 America great.  If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
 have tolerated the last eight years?" ---- Frank Zappa, Feb 1, 1989 ----
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