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From: neighorn@percival.UUCP (Steve Neighorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MicroPort System V/AT info wanted
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Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 21:33:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 21:33:23 1986
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In article <688@scirtp.UUCP> scott@scirtp.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw) writes:
>I'd appreciate any comments from users on MicroPort's
>System V/AT. 
>Has anyone tried running this on an AT clone ?

I have been running Microport SYS V/AT for about 3 months. The system is a
QIC Research '286 machine running at 8Mhz/0 wait states. One Seagate 4051
is devoted to holding the OS. I have had generally good luck with the system.
Thanks to help from people on the net, my printer now works great - LPT1: =
/dev/lp1 (what does /dev/lp0 do?). A new kernel update has fixed my very
annoying screen scroll problem with my EGA card. The same update included a
much improved uucico program along with a 'dialinfo' file (works with cu
too), and upgraded fdisk and divvy programs, that appear to be able to handle
just about any hard disk, BIOS support or not. Microport includes DOSDIR and
DOSCP so going back and forth to msdos formatted disks is no problem. Just
about everything that compiles under SCO Xenix compiles under V/AT. I haven't
got news v2.11 yet, but I amthisclose. 

I could talk all day about V/AT, so instead of filling /spool directories, ask
any specific questions and I will answer them if I can. I also would be glad to
help with any collection of help/hint/bug_reports/etc regarding V/AT. Let's
get something going! I don't get news on my own machine yet, but I can be
reached via the address listed in my signature.

-- 
Steven C. Neighorn                tektronix!{psu-cs,reed}!qiclab!neighorn
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