Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!iuvax!ndmath!thelink!marlin
From: marlin@thelink.UUCP (Marlin Sheffield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: All this Microport Flaming: A solid Vote for XENIX
Message-ID: <255@thelink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 13:07:04 GMT
References: <4610@well.UUCP> <394@ddsw1.UUCP> <255@spl1.UUCP> <2398@killer.UUCP> <438@cimcor.UUCP>
Organization: TheLink Public Access Unix South Bend, IN.
Lines: 34
Keywords: Microport, "Real Unix", Dreams, Broken promises, I Love XENIX
Summary: Encouraged not yet satisfied- but the problems not THAT bad!

In article <438@cimcor.UUCP>, mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) writes:
> > Now only time will tell if my box can run for 25+ days.  Aside note,
> > 
> > - John.
> 
> Ok, I don't want to start a flood of long stories but aside from me once
> testing a bad memory card and forgetting to set up the bad block table on
> the hard disk (my faults, not unix). This Microport system has been
> running here for 6 months, 24 hours a day - and yes, I do useful
> work on the system.
>     -Mike
>     {amdahl, rutgers, ihnp4}!meccts!cimcor!mike



I've got to agree Mike. I have a public access UNIX site here and we have been
running the news software for several months now and the only down time I've
experienced has been the result of the local power company and not the OS. Our
system has run 24 hours a day as has yours and I am happy with the results.

I do understand how these sort of flames can happen when working with the
tech staff at uport. I have been told tape drivers will be available for the
archive tape unit in about 30 days every month for the last 7. I persist and
call every 30 days to hear the same story. 

While the port is not yet perfect the product is a much more stable one today
than the product I used a year ago. I want to encourage Microport to continue
the effort in engineering until the product equals the marketing!

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Marlin Sheffield                         There are wonderful alternatives
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Granger, Indiana  46530                  never yet been tried.   -Rene Dubois
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