bmyers@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Myers) (10/22/89)
as a new owner of one of these machines (with enhanced vga
monitor and paradise 16+ vga, miniscribe 85 meg hard drive),
i have a few questions:
1. with windows and adding additional memory: if i get an at-type
extended memory board and add 2/4 meg of 80-ns memory, do i need
to change anything in my win.ini file? can i then run more than
one virtual window with more than 600k?
2. the 85 meg miniscribe drive --
a) is formated into three partitions for a total of 70 meg. is
the loss of 15 meg disk space typical for using the miniscribe
hard disk partitioning program?
b) does a hard drive (miniscribe ) lowlevel formatting program
come with the system?
c) can i use speedstor and get more space out of my drive?
3. unix on the sx --
a) can i run unix on the 80386sx? in particular, microport
system v\386?
b) with 2 meg total, can unix run (i know it will be swappinng
like crazy).
any infor would be appreciated.
- bobdavidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/24/89)
In article <9816@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>, bmyers@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Bob Myers) writes: | 2. the 85 meg miniscribe drive -- | a) is formated into three partitions for a total of 70 meg. is | the loss of 15 meg disk space typical for using the miniscribe | hard disk partitioning program? If you have a 6085 or 3085 the formatted capacity is 72MB. Has nothing to do with the partitioning program. | b) does a hard drive (miniscribe ) lowlevel formatting program | come with the system? | c) can i use speedstor and get more space out of my drive? The partitioning program has little to do with the disk size. Various programs may slow operation, though. | 3. unix on the sx -- | a) can i run unix on the 80386sx? in particular, microport | system v\386? UNIX will run. If you can get MNP for free it might be worth the time. They are in Chapter 11. | b) with 2 meg total, can unix run (i know it will be swappinng | like crazy). It may not be that bad. Because programs can be paged the whole program doesn't have to swap. For single user you should be okay, although you will take a hit if you get a lot of stuff running at once. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon