farber@UDEL-HUEY.ARPA (Dave Farber) (05/26/85)
I know I should just send this to info-ibmpc, but I hope by sending it widely to get to people who should hear. My frustration is about IBM Xenix for the AT. I usupect that it is a careful plot to kill Xenix by creating a product that has errors in working and in judgement. Let me give you two examples. 1. The error reporting of Xenix boot up reports bad cylinder/track info OFF one cylinder. So unless you are a psychic you will do the wrong thing and it will still fail. Why oh why cannot they test their products better ESPECIALLY on a system like the AT with known disk problems. 2. silly but. The manuals say you must have a touchtone line for running uucp. Why you may ask. Well I will tell you. The timeout is et so short on dialing that with a dial pulse line you time out on a cross country call. Come now IBM and Microsoft, there is a bit of the USA that lives with Pulse dialing not like you rich guys. All in all, I repeat, sounds like a plot to kill Unix on the part of the Immense Black Mountain (IBM). Dave