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- From: carlb@hardy.u.washington.edu (Carl Boernecke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Upgrading to MIPS processor?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.085650.11317@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 08:56:50 GMT
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- hak@alf.cooper.edu (Jeff Hakner) writes:
- >Now, I'll make my standard pitch to NCR: USL has a working
- >System V, Release 4.1 for the WE32x00-based 3B2 computers, both
- >V2 and V3 systems. I know, because I'm running it. However,
- >it is only available (at a reasonable price) to universities like
- >us. It would be up to NCR to package it and distribute it as
- >a binary product. How about it? Let's conduct a little straw
- >poll: How many 3B2 users out there would be willing to upgrade
- >to SVR4, and how much would you be willing to pay?
-
- Oh, me! I wanna get it for Christmas! Although the release 3.2
- software that I`m running now isn`t bad, I want all of the upgrades
- that Release 4 has to offer. After all, think how much easier it
- would be to run BSD stuff... Wouldn`t that be nice. As for price,
- I have no idea what 3B2 software goes for, so I haven`t a clue.
-
- -- Carl Boernecke (carlb@u.washingon.edu)
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