More fun with Dick & Jane...

[Bob Palowoda]

In article <285 at afsg.Apple.COM>, ron at afsg.Apple.COM (Ron Flax) writes:
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> 
> >of course the toolbox support, which was supposed to make this Yet-
> >Another-Undistinguished-Unix-Box desireable
> 
> Name one other UNIX box that runs *QUALITY* off-the-shelf software at
> reasonable prices (ie, under $500-700 per copy).  Granted A/UX doesn't
> run all MacOS applications, however it does run many of the standard
> ones that lots of us use. (MS-WORD 4.0, Excel 2.2, PowerPoint,
> MacWrite II, MacDraw II, MacPaint, More II, WordPerfect, HyperCard, 
> WingZ, etc...)

   I use ESIX (SysV 3.2) with Simul-Task (dos emulator) which cost
about 700 for both. I run MS-WORD 4.0, Quattro, Rix VGA paint, 
WordPerfect, Xwindows, Foxbase etc ( your standard off the shelf
*QUALITY* software). Granted it will not Mac based software. 
Heck I even get TCP/IP the compilier and a bunch of berkeley
extra's thrown in for the price. You asked for the name.
ESIX is Everex's version of UNIX. 
 
> >But you want to hear complaints, so there they are. While I'm at it,
> >why don't you fix the various documented bugs that have been floating
> >around (which make uucp a real problem, for example), bring the port base
> >up to SVR3 (or dare I ask for R4?), support the FFS, provide a reasonable
> >tape product (the 40SC is the most shameful piece of garbage ever to come
> >out of Apple, I think), provide CD-ROM copies, a reasonable manual without
> >requiring purchase of the $600 set, decent support of what little new
> >hardware Apple has started selling since A/UX came out, etc. etc.
> 
> Ah, finally something constructive.. OK.. which bugs are you refering
> to when you say floating around?  What version of UUCP would you like
> to see?  HoneyDanBer? 4.3BSD?  What would you gain by having an SVR3
> porting base? Streams? we have 5.2.1 Streams in 1.1.  What about RFS,
> that's in R3, but everyone uses NFS. 

  Don't be silly, everyone dosn't use NFS. I use RFS because the it 
is included in the package. It's very useful for remote file systems.
If I want NFS, I can get it for about 300 from more than one vendor.
Streams by itself is useless to the end user unless you give the 
user that uses the resources. Something like Streams+RFS or 
NFS+Berkely Sockets.



> a solid porting base.  The BSD Fast Filesystem, yes I'd like to see
> that as well, in fact that plus long filenames. 
  In R4.


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