System V 5.1 vs 5.2

[Bruce Robertson]

In article <187 at bucsb.UUCP> cforeman at bucsb.UUCP (Charles Foreman) writes:
>
>   I have recently purchased a Stride Micro processor, running UNIX System V
>revision 1. In the near future, Stride will be releasing rev. 2, and I will
>have the opportunity to upgrade.  Since I bought the machine used, I will
>effectively have to pay the full price (no upgrade discounts) for the new
>version.
>
>   Does anyone know what enhancements were made in the revision 2 (vers 2)
>release?  Would these changes be worth the $800 price tag (or simmilar
>price)?  Thanks for your help!
>
>-CForeman

First of all, Stride has yet to determine any prices for the forthcoming
upgrade.  Secondly, I believe that when you buy a used machine, you can
get the UNIX license that came with the machine transferred.  I'll be
sending you some mail on this, Charles.

Also, you have to consider that when you upgrade from Stride's current
release to UniStride 1.0 (our name for UNIX 5.2.2), you get much more
than just 5.2.2.  The UniStride release also has Berkeley
"socket"-style networking, many more Berkeley utilities, oodles of
public domain software, much better documentation, and 68010 support.
Also, GNU Emacs is fully supported, though you currently have to
obtain this either direct from the Free Software Foundation, "ftp"
from `prep.ai.mit.arpa', or via "uucp" from Stride.
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	Bruce Robertson
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