Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!pacbell!indetech!fiver!palowoda From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Dell UNIX System w/Motif (was Re: ENIX V.3.2 info) Summary: Dell Unix Message-ID: <133@fiver.UUCP> Date: 17 Aug 89 21:46:38 GMT References: <1539@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <6972@megatest.UUCP> <2624@dell.dell.com> Organization: Fiver Communications Fremont, Ca Lines: 59 In article <2624@dell.dell.com>, dewey@dell.dell.com (Dewey Coffman) writes: > In article <6972@megatest.UUCP> palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes: > > > > That reminds me. What's with Dell Computers with it's UNIX and > > Xwindow OS it's offering? It claims to have the Motiff user interface > > etc. Is this really SCO's UNIX? Anybody check up on it? > > > Dell's UNIX System is based on Interactives 2.0 product. It's > been customized for Dell hardware. ie. all our machines have ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ See ITEM #1 > one parallel port, two serial ports... VGA is supported better with > hardware screen scrolling.....Telebit dialer line is the Dialers file. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is interesting, how is this done? It's not locked to any peticular hardware card is it? > Basically, hardware we sell, we tried to put support in our UNIX > System for it. ITEM #1 This is ok, just as long as you don't lock the software to any of the hardware you sell. Bell Tech. did that with one of there tape drive interfaces and it really piss** off alot of there customers. > The current Motif offering is just the Motif Window > Manager(mwm) from Snapshot #7, a genuine alpha release we ported. > Full functionality available at that time including the Accelerator > Keys. Bugs will be found in it, Yet we felt it was best to get it out > so that user would have a GUI NOW. We give away X free with every > UNIX System, and that includes mwm. As soon as Motif 1.0 is availble > (not the General Availbility Release) we will update customers with > it. > > I don't want to get to commerical, but to give you an idea of prices, [stuff deleted about hardware prices] Well I was more interested in the software prices. So I did call Dell and and this is the price's for the software: 1445.00 SysV OS, Xindows and Vpix with manuals. (window mangers, twm, uwm, and mwm) 549.00 Development 295.00 TCP/IP That's the info I was looking for. Will a DOS session that is started with VPIX run inside one of the Xwindows, wiether it be TWM (Toms Window Manager) or the Motiff Window Manger? In other words does the dos session work with virtual consoles or virtual terminals? ---Bob