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Xref: sserve comp.unix.misc:10477 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:5117 comp.unix.bsd:13070 comp.windows.x.i386unix:5724 biz.sco.general:9223 Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x.i386unix,biz.sco.general Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!apple.com!amd!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: SCO market share Message-ID: <hastyCHxzu5.Lt0@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1993Dec10.004649.11091@anomaly.sbs.com> <1993Dec11.032903.29962@ksmith.com> <16CA277C1S85.KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 22:01:17 GMT Lines: 45 In article <16CA277C1S85.KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> KZUPAN@LSTC2VM.stortek.com writes: >In article <1993Dec11.032903.29962@ksmith.com> >keith@ksmith.com (Keith Smith) writes: > >> >>In article <1993Dec10.004649.11091@anomaly.sbs.com>, >>Rev. Michael P. Deignan <kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.com> wrote: >>>dcm6986@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Dan Mattrazzo) writes: >>> >>>> Yes, Linux comes with gcc, ++, mail, TCP/IP, CD-ROM support, >>>> soundboard support, XWindows, on and on. And it's free. >>> >>>Unfortuntely, it doesn't support a fraction of the device drivers >>>that are available on the market for other devices, such as a >>>Always Technology SCSI board, or a Specialix SIO card. >>> >>Funny, I missed the soundblaster support in SCO. Is it on sosco? Is >>it user supported or SCO supported or Card vendor specific? >> >>BTW I'd lay odds that SCO Unix is supported by and supports more >>hardware than _ANY_ other Unix PERIOD, so any driver support arguments >>vs. SCO are a lose for the other side. >> >Not to mention the fact that there is support for the Always IN2000 now >available on sunsite and tsx-11, and has been for a few months. Besides >the fact that I wouldn't call the Allways card a standard to be focused on. >Not saying it a bad card, its just not the standard. There are some gaps in >Linux yes, but we got the nets best minds filling them in. > Once I had a nightmare , a salesman trying to sell me the SCO developement system for $2000. However, *bsd and linux bail us out :-) Granted the price for SCO may have dropped recently but it is too late for developers like me. Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X