Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Low Productivity of Knowledge Workers Message-ID: <13@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 19:08:50 GMT References: <9676@venera.isi.edu> <189@crucible.UUCP> <291@voa3.UUCP> <7916@microsoft.UUCP> <6375@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Organization: Wimsey Associates Lines: 20 In article <6375@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: }In article <7916@microsoft.UUCP>, philba@microsoft.UUCP (Phil Barrett) writes: }> I'm not sure what your point is. } }> a limited set of applications but I find it odd coming from a *NIX support }> guy. How many times has uucp gotten wedged on you? } }Under a modern system-V system? Never. I'll second that. Van-bc logs 200+ hours a week of uucp traffic on four lines. We have *NEVER* had uucp get stuck since we installed the 386 with SCO last winter. We have had minor problems finding a multi-port serial card that would work with modem control. But that's not a Unix problem. And the SCO Async driver has always functioned flawlessly on the builtin serial ports. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)