From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: What 'stune' parameters do you use for X386?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:38:41 GMT

[ This is barely worth a response.  I hope to not sound as inane as this bozo ]

In article <BtLt5w.3xD@eis.com> dvb@eis.com (David Van Beveren) writes:
> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
> : 
> : But I've been running Microport SVR4.0.4 for a while now (3-4 months).
> : And, lo and behold, I don't pop up here asking for help.  Guess what?  I've
> : had no problems whatsoever, since getting a reasonable modem and switching
> : to SAS.  I guess Microport SVR4 works too.  Did you ever think that some
> 
> (so, I guess you DID have problems at some point, which made you
> switch async. drivers?)
> 

Yup.  And guess what?  I solved my problems without crying to the net.
And like I've said - I've had no problems since then.  I'm quite sure
that my Unix is just as stable as Larry's, and that I spent about the 
same amount of time configuring it as he did.

> : of us just don't feel the compulsion to go "nyah, nyah" all the time?
> : 
> : Of course, Microport does have this little pricing problem :-<  Sigh.
> 
> Nyah, Nyah!
> 

Grow up.

> : I expect that I will be moving to SVR4.2 from some other vendor.  Buying
> : it new will probably been cheaper than Microport's upgrade.
> 
> Nyah, Nyah!
> 

Ditto.

> : 
> : Which is a real shame, because they're a great bunch of guys.
> : 
> 
> This (their being a 'great bunch of guys') is, of course, a prime
> factor used in determining a products quality, right?
> 

No.  I decided it was a quality product long before I got to know
the people there.  You've obviously no followed this newsgroup, or
you would know that.  If it were not a quality product, I would not 
have been spending enough time on the phone with them to know that 
they are a great bunch of guys.  Things like the fact that I got my 
SVR4.0.4 upgrade for free after I made it very clear to them that I 
wasn't going to pay the price they were asking, spending about half 
an hour discussing with me what feature of SVR4.2 I wanted, to aid in 
their decision on whether or not to bring out such an offering, the 
fact that I was able to call up their SCSI developer to discuss a 
problem with hooking a SCSI device to the Sun at work (trying to 
understand what the cryptic SCSI error message meant.

The point is that Dell is NOT the only quality SVR4 out there and that 
customer support counts for something, whether it has to do with bug
reports, or just listening to what the customer has to say.  If you've
been following this newsgroup at all, you'll know that I've gone through
three upgrades of Microport's SVR4, and each one is better than the
previous one.  Before their pricing went nuts, I used to recommend them
highly, when people asked.

But I've never felt the compulsion to pop up and say "My Unix is better
than your Unix" whenever anyone asks for help, as Larry obviously does.

> 
> Party loyalty is alive and well. Sheesh.
> 

Look at my .signature, then reread the above.  If I were into party
loyalty, I would be running AT&T/USL SVR4 on a AT&T/NCR computer.  But
I'm not.  I'm running Microport SVR4 on a Tangent box.  Not to mention
the fact that I just stated that I'm probably leaving Microport for my
next upgrade.

Try not to sound like an idiot next time.  Geez, Larry only does
figurative "nyah, nyah"s.  What a jerk!


> -- 
> David Van Beveren                          e-mail: dvb@eis.com
> Consulting Engineer
> EIS Ltd. Professional Software Services 
>         "The opinions presented ARE those of Emerald Isle Systems!"


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