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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:34:13 GMT
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- In article <id.TJ0W.TK6@ferranti.com>, korenek@ferranti.com (gary korenek) writes:
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- | Well, $1295.00 plus the cost of the tape drive (+ t.d. interface board?),
- | assuming tape drive + interface must be purchased to load the tapes.
- | This is a big out-of-pocket expense.
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- Dell must have a GB of mail on that topic, they support two media,
- each less common than the other for PCs. Installing on a laptop is
- always an adventure, you don't normally have tape, they don't believe in
- floppies, they don't support the little eithernet thing that hooks to
- the parallel port so you can use their excellent net install...
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- If there's one thing SCO does right, it's ship on the media you want
- to use... tape, CD, floppy, etc. Dell doesn't believe in floppies or CD,
- but if you have a half-slot in a laptop and can drop in an 8003 net card
- you can install in minutes.
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- UNIX is a great idea being sold by companies who couldn't sell fast
- food in Somalia. Every company either disregards the idea of low price
- volume sales, or thinks UNIX is a funny thing to sell hardware, or wants
- to sell only on popular media like punched paper tape.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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