Interactive and me - An open letter to ISC.

[Vidiot]

In article <3126 at rsiatl.UUCP> jgd at rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:
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<Particularly this new innovation of ISC's called Copy Protection (or
<serialization, if you like.)   I discovered this new feature this week as I 
<opened the box on 62 lbs of ISC Unix 2.2.x - everything they make,
<we bought.  I installed the package on a Compaq 33 mhz DeskPro.  Said
<installation, while a bit more glitzy than 2.0.2, had all the same 
<old problems and still required me to whiz around with vi editing this
<configuration file or that.  If corporate hogs like NCR can write 
<interactive system administration scripts that work, why can't interactive?
<After the custom configuration, it has run for a couple of days 
<without incident.  I really can't compare the speed with 2.0.2 since I 
<never had it on hardware this fast.
<
<SCO was the client's initial choice for the OS.  It had a lot of 
<support within the organization.  Then SCO started their serialization
<crap.  It is my policy to do everything within my power to kick out 
<vendors who implement such systems.  I sold the concept of trying
<a (to them) new product - ISC unix.  Benchmarking showed large 
<improvements in disk I/O performance over SCO Xenix.  So we ordered
<the 62 lbs of ISC unix in order to build a prototype.  The package 
<arrived by barge :-)  We opened it.  We found that damn serialization
<card just like the one that got SCO the boot.  Guess what?  ISC is
<getting the same boot that SCO did.  We will most likely end up with
<an AIX solution as much as I hate IBM.

What-a-minute!!!  What copy protection, what serialization?  Please
explain what ISC has done.

Sounds like I don't want 2.2 either.
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