davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu (Davig Gonzales) (11/15/89)
hi, Today at Comdex (in Las Vegas) I saw in person the latest version of ESIX System V 3.2. From what I saw it was a very nice port of UNIX. It was running under X with no apparent slowness. The sales person said that ESIX may be coming out with Version/Release D before releasing 5.4. At ~$600 for a full blown system I will more than likely be buying this version of UNIX. David A. Gonzales ERC/UNLV
uri@morannon.watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) (11/16/89)
--------------------- > > Today at Comdex (in Las Vegas) I saw in person the latest version of > ESIX System V 3.2. From what I saw it was a very nice port of UNIX. It was ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, have you ever seen an "ugly" port? ^^^^^ > running under X with no apparent slowness. The sales person said that ESIX may ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Could you be more specific please? What did they show you? And, which is more important - what hardware was it running on? 386/33MHz plus memory cache, plus Weitek or 80387 plus 16 or 20MB of RAM - you know... If you can afford that - you may as well buy a little workstation-screamer (:-). > be coming out with Version/Release D before releasing 5.4. At ~$600 for a full > blown system I will more than likely be buying this version of UNIX. > > David A. Gonzales Couple of questions. First: did you see ESIX Color X-Windows, or black-and-white version? The Color one is ABSOLUTELY unusable (slow). The operating system itself, well, as others... No drag or boost noticeable. Now. Who told you it will cost $600 ?! All the ads Everex publishes for ESIX say $836 (or something around that , but definitely more than $800). And you say "full blown system". Well, when I bought their Release A, it didn't have the features it was supposed to (according to their advertisements, and those pieces of manual I got). So I had to pay for an upgrade to Release B, which had bridged the gap a little. The funniest thing was - they were thinking for about three weeks, wether I can get the upgrade, or should pay for the new system as if I were buying the new one (imagine, it was less than a month after I bought so-called Release A!). I also had some problems reporting bugs (needless to say I haven't got any fixes :-), they gave me an e-mail address, but e-mail goes there as in the trash-can (nothing comes back, and no response :-). Otherwise, the system is not bad. Well, it costed me about $350 (plus $70 upgrade) - so to have a "full-blown UNIX" for $420 - should I complain? (:-) ============ <Disclaimer>
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (11/17/89)
> > a very nice port of UNIX. > Well, have you ever seen an "ugly" port? Lots of them. > The Color [X] is ABSOLUTELY unusable (slow). I haven't seen a color X that wasn't unusable by my standards. When a 33 MHz 80386 is less responsive than a 7 MHz 68000, there's something wrong, even if you *can* get work done. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "vi is bad because it didn't work after I put jelly in my keyboard." -- Jeffrey W Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)