Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:1624 comp.sys.intel:538 Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!mann From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Pity the poor 286 folk Message-ID: <1988Sep23.152733.6249@intacc.uucp> Date: 23 Sep 88 19:27:33 GMT References: <326@siswat.UUCP> <472@uport.UUCP> <9695@ico.ISC.COM> Reply-To: mann@intacc.UUCP (Jeff Mann) Organization: Inter\Access, Toronto Lines: 31 In article <9695@ico.ISC.COM> rcd@ico.ISC.COM (Dick Dunn) writes: >I hope Microport isn't planning to leave 286 users out in the cold just >because the 386 is in vogue...there are a lot of 286 boxen out there >(aren't there? I hope?! hello?) which want a good UNIX. Saying, "Hey, just Yeah! My uport286 system is pretty good, for what it is, now that 2.3 has reduced the almost daily serial port panics, and I figured out how to use getty with 8n1. But it is a pretty insular universe. I wanna run MS-word! Is that too much to ask, without having to get some kind of klunky dosmerge (if there even is one that works)?? Are there any decent applications I can run? I have spent the last year writing code on it, but I can't do everything! I called our dealer to ask how to connect into an appletalk network, he said: "there is NO support for ANY kind of networking with V/AT!" What kind of UNIX can't do networking??? The only thing I can think of is to use the KA9Q tcp/ip package over the serial port, that's really gonna please my MS-Word users! I want a tape backup. I'm *real* sick of swapping 50+ floppies around, but I sure as hell can't afford $2000.00 (Canadian) for the ONLY drive supported. That's more than my whole system is worth! And what about SCSI?????? Well, that's what I want, but I don't think I'll get it. I doubt that the sales volume is there to justify all that work, especially if there is a generic merged V/386 coming up soon which will support lotsa 3rd party applications, networking, and devices. So I guess Microport can't really be blamed for leaving us "out in the cold". Brrrrrrrrr........ wanna buy a used AT? -- | Jeff Mann - Inter/Access, Toronto ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann | | "A picture is worth 256 thousand words" {utzoo, utgpu}!chp!intacc!mann |