cforeman@bucsb.UUCP (Charles Foreman) (03/18/86)
I have recently purchased a Stride Micro processor, running UNIX System V revision 1. In the near future, Stride will be releasing rev. 2, and I will have the opportunity to upgrade. Since I bought the machine used, I will effectively have to pay the full price (no upgrade discounts) for the new version. Does anyone know what enhancements were made in the revision 2 (vers 2) release? Would these changes be worth the $800 price tag (or simmilar price)? Thanks for your help! -CForeman UUCP: ..harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!cforeman
bruce@stride.UUCP (Bruce Robertson) (03/23/86)
In article <187@bucsb.UUCP> cforeman@bucsb.UUCP (Charles Foreman) writes: > > I have recently purchased a Stride Micro processor, running UNIX System V >revision 1. In the near future, Stride will be releasing rev. 2, and I will >have the opportunity to upgrade. Since I bought the machine used, I will >effectively have to pay the full price (no upgrade discounts) for the new >version. > > Does anyone know what enhancements were made in the revision 2 (vers 2) >release? Would these changes be worth the $800 price tag (or simmilar >price)? Thanks for your help! > >-CForeman First of all, Stride has yet to determine any prices for the forthcoming upgrade. Secondly, I believe that when you buy a used machine, you can get the UNIX license that came with the machine transferred. I'll be sending you some mail on this, Charles. Also, you have to consider that when you upgrade from Stride's current release to UniStride 1.0 (our name for UNIX 5.2.2), you get much more than just 5.2.2. The UniStride release also has Berkeley "socket"-style networking, many more Berkeley utilities, oodles of public domain software, much better documentation, and 68010 support. Also, GNU Emacs is fully supported, though you currently have to obtain this either direct from the Free Software Foundation, "ftp" from `prep.ai.mit.arpa', or via "uucp" from Stride. -- Bruce Robertson UUCP: cbosgd!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!bruce ARPA: stride!bruce@utah-gr.arpa