Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!auvax!louis From: louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Any experience with Enix (Everex SysV for 386)? Summary: Go with Real AT&T 386 UNIX Message-ID: <786@auvax.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 88 01:37:43 GMT References: <418@telly.UUCP> <11209@reed.UUCP> <3032@sugar.uu.net> <8349@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada Lines: 36 In article <8349@ut-emx.UUCP>, jinkins@ut-emx.UUCP (Richard Jinkins) writes: # In article <3032@sugar.uu.net#, karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: # # In article <11209@reed.UUCP#, keithb@reed.UUCP (Keith Brown) writes: # # # The most note-worthy part of Everex' announcement was the suggested LIST price # # # for the complete unlimited license to their SVR3.2 --- $499.00 complete. # # # # ...impossible, if other 386/AT Unix vendors are to be believed. If not, then # # Everex may take the lowest-price-baton from Bell Tech (who took it from # # Microport) # # About four months ago I purchased a copy of ENIX V/386 (SVR3.0) for # $539 through a local Everex dealer. My license was for the 2 user system # and the manuals. Read the advertising flier carefully. It say that this # version has X windows, Documentors workbench, etc available but the # actual release does not come with these items, they are extra. # I would make the following suggestion to anyone looking at buying # ENIX. First, inquire as to what exactly comes with the system for the # price you are paying. Second, buy the AT&T System V/386 manuals through # your local bookstore, they are much cheaper than Everexs (and exactly the # same). I would go a step further and get AT&T 386 UNIX Rel 3.2. I bought a copy of Rel 3.1 for $700.00 but it was for unlimited users and included the Development package (but not DWB). I had trouble installing it on a Televideo 386 (almost an AT-clone), which turned out to be the keybd, or all things. When I replaced the TVI keybd with a kybd from an IBM PC/XT, it installed, and is running very well. I will be ordering the upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2 shortly. -- Louis Schmittroth My employer has no opinions. Computer Science Athabasca University ...{ubc-vision, ihnp4}!alberta!auvax!louis