[net.micro.pc] VENIX from UniSource

mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (02/23/84)

It's amazing - Usenet gets results.  I posted a message previously that
indicated I was unable to talk to anyone from UniSource to answer my
questions.  Someone apparently read it and conveyed this to UniSource,
and I got a phone call today.

Anyway, the person who returned my call is Joyce Dinman.  She's also the
person I talked to the first time I called, several weeks ago, and at
that time she was very helpful, even gave me a number I could dial up
and try the system out with.  However, she has apparently been out of
town for a few weeks.  For some reason (unclear to either of us)
attempts to speak with a technical person other than her did not
succeed.  Now that she's back, she's vigorously trying to make sure that
this problem doesn't happen again.

Interesting point - a single user license lets you run UUCP on your async
port anyway.  How do they implement this?  Can you put a getty on the port
for uucp but nobody else can log in on it?  Or do they only allow outgoing
UUCP? (ugh!)

So anyway, UniSource seems to be an OK place, at least as long as Joyce
Dinman is in town.

	Mark