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Article #43619Re: Dell and Dell 386SX feedback sought
From: Tom Betz
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 21:03
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 21:03
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Quoth larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) in <511251@nstar.UUCP>:
|In article <2146@sunquest.UUCP>, whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes:
|> stevek@hpfcmgw.UUCP writes:
|>
|> The second bad experience I had involved vp/ix. Before buying the system, I
|> asked the sales rep how good vp/ix was. Her initial response was basically
|> "it runs every DOS program with no problems". I was astounded by this and I
|> asked her to check further and verify this. She checked further and replied
|
|We have VP/ix here at nstar - and use it daily to run a DOS based BBS
|under Interactive Unix (2.02) without problems. As a matter of fact,
|the 386/ix release of VP/ix has run every DOS application that I have
|tried.
Clearly, you haven't been using Word Perfect 5.{0,1}.
Beware of any program that insists upon writing temporary files
to the C: drive. Other than that, any DOS program should work
just fine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!marob!lilink.com!upaya!tbetz From: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Dell and Dell 386SX feedback sought Message-ID: <1014@upaya.lilink.COM> Date: 6 Mar 90 21:03:00 GMT References: <670004@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> <2146@sunquest.UUCP> <511251@nstar.UUCP> Reply-To: tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) Organization: Greyston Business Services Lines: 25