xenix on compaq
Pete Rourke
pete at romed.UUCP
Tue Oct 18 15:32:23 AEST 1988
A testiment to SCO, pporta is a 1 MB portable 386 with 100 MB hard drive.
Its like leaving your wallet behind, when I find myself without it.
The 1 MB RAM is only a temporary setback. Bringing the system home was
tantamount to divorce, a modem or additional RAM would have precipitated
bruises, broken bones, or child support.
Sabbaticals, I take frequently! I am always stuffing pporta in the luggage
space overhead in aircraft. What's difficult, is having to explain to the
airport security, what the boot prompt means when one has to plug in the
system at the security post to affirm that it is really a computer, and not
an interesting container for a bomb. This doesn't allow for late arrivals
for the plane.
As a salesman, pporta is invaluable. SCO multiscreens are probably as nice
as a "hip pocket on a shirt". Managing 3 pricing databases, 1 spreadsheet,
word processing, and a customer database, when at a customer sites is great.
Being a sales resource in my company, makes having modem attachment to
romed (my hub machine, (another Compaq)), like a awesome pager, information
gatherer, and support vehicle.
I even have a separate L.sys (HDUUCP=Systems) and Dialcodes files to deal
with the maddness at motel room.
Do I sound like I am a SCO/Compaq zealot?
enjoy
pete at pporta
pete at romed
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