dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) (09/12/90)
Something has been hounding me for weeks. It is those Esix ads, comparing themselves with Sco, and how they blow them away. For such a great price, my question is, What is *wrong* with the Esix package? -- Dan Troxel @ Handwriting Research Corporation WK 1-602-957-8870 Camelback Corporate Center 2821 E. Camelback Road Suite 600 Phoenix, AZ 85016 ncar!noao!asuvax!hrc!dan zardoz!hrc!dan hrc!dan@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
cws@janus.Quotron.com (Craig W. Shaver) (09/14/90)
In article <201642@hrc.UUCP>, dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: > Something has been hounding me for weeks. It is those Esix ads, comparing > themselves with Sco, and how they blow them away. For such a great price, > my question is, > > What is *wrong* with the Esix package? > -- I do not think anything is wrong with the Esix package. I have tested Esix rev. B, C, and D on my system and like it very much. The installation and some of the admin are not as good as the straight Xenix but are workable after some practice. I want to see it get kicked around a little more before recommending it to business users and clients without much computer experience. I have also looked at ISC 2.2 on the same machine and do not like it at all. For developers you will find that the include files are messed up, and they are no better than Esix for installation and sysadm. Right now for customers I want to stick with Xenix 386 (not the unix one) and am looking forward to SysV.4. It had better be cheap or I will stay with what is currently being used. Craig W. Shaver ================================================================ part time consultant for Productivity Systems 213-396-7195 - and - Quotron Systems Inc. | Phone: (213) 302-4247 5454 Beethoven Street | uucp: hacgate!janus!cws Post Office Box 66914 | craig@tradr2.quotron.com Los Angeles, CA 90066 | ================================================================
staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) (09/14/90)
dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: ... > What is *wrong* with the Esix package? I don't know what, IF anything - but definitely NOT the Everex Corp. itself! Never had business with a nicer bunch of guys. I have one of their MNP-5 modems, bought in the States, and their phone support is just great. They even went the distance of sending me an upgrade ROM *free of charge* to see if it would fix the modem's only problem, connecting with an HST Dual Standard on very noisy lines (i.e. the usual grade of phone lines in Italy :-(....). -- Alex Martelli - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 45, Bologna, Italia Email: (work:) staff@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) alex@am.sublink.org Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 371099, (home:) ++39 (51) 250434; Fax: ++39 (51) 366964 (work only; any time of day or night).