Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!ssbn!bill From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Any experience with Enix (Everex SysV for 386)? Summary: AT&T UNIX works Message-ID: <266@ssbn.WLK.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 16:01:15 GMT References: <418@telly.UUCP> <11209@reed.UUCP> <3032@sugar.uu.net> <786@auvax.UUCP> <436@telly.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 44 In article <436@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes: [ deleting what I'm not following up ] >OK. Now tell me what AT&T Vr3.2 has that Enix Vr3.2 doesn't. >Or vice vera. >All I know now is that AT&T is more expensive, and doesn't work with >Televideo keyboards. >-- >Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly "I am most concerned that >Located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario, Canada nobody will remember me >evan@telly.on.ca -or- uunet!attcan!telly!evan when I am dead" - Anon. Evan, you're quite mistaken. As he said, he got AT&T 386 UNIX for $700, unlimited users, with development. That's right at half what the others charge for unlimited users and about the same as what they charge for development. It's not more expensive if you compare feature for feature. If it doesn't work with Televideo keyboards then I guess I shouldn't be posting this since I'm using one and AT&T 386 UNIX. If you meant it doesn't work with Televideo computers then I'll concede that it, along with several others, is known to have problems. I can assure you that it does work with Televideo keyboards, both vanilla UNIX stuff and VP/ix, I'm doing it now. I can not comment on what either has that the other doesn't, they both have their roots in the Intel/ISC port (as they all do except for SCO). Having (barely) survived Microport V/386 I can report that the facilities for building a kernel are superior to the generic 386 UNIX's and a number of nagging problems were fixed by AT&T before they released it. The AT&T documentation (except for VP/ix, SCO wins that one) is superior to the others and you don't have to pay extra for it. I'm completely ignorant of Enix, so please don't imply that I'm commenting on it, just the AT&T product. There is, in my opinion, a glaring shortcoming in AT&T 386 UNIX. Despite the slip of paper that says you get 90 days Hot Line support, that's just not the way it works. If you can not provide a registered 6386 CPU serial number then you are a leper. Fortunately I haven't had much need for any support that I could not get from comp.sys.att or by email from kind souls within AT&T (and outside of the Hot Line). When I had Microport V/386 I needed lots of support but couldn't get anything but guesses. I'm told that has improved. As I said, I don't know anything about Enix. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {killer,att,cs.utexas.edu,sun!daver}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM