marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) (08/02/88)
Anybody out there using un*x on a '386 machine? Ideal would be to run DOS as a task. Anyone have experience with VP/ix or Merge386? Recommendations? thanks, marco
zgel05@apctrc.UUCP (George E. Lehmann) (08/03/88)
In article <200002@hpmcaa.HP.COM> marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) writes: >Anybody out there using un*x on a '386 machine? >Ideal would be to run DOS as a task. Anyone have experience with >VP/ix or Merge386? Recommendations? I haven't seen anymore than literature on it, but VenturCom (617-661-1230) has a product called Venix. From a quick scan of this, it does not appear to have a DOS window capability, only allows multiple disk partitions which can allow a quick reboot to DOS... I have no affiliation with VenturCom, etc., etc., ... -- George Lehmann, ...!uunet!apctrc!zgel05 Amoco Production Co., PO BOX 3385, Tulsa, Ok 74102 ph:918-660-4066 Standard Disclaimer: Contents are my responsibility, not AMOCO's.
bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) (08/04/88)
In article <200002@hpmcaa.HP.COM> marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) writes: >Anybody out there using un*x on a '386 machine? > >Ideal would be to run DOS as a task. Anyone have experience with >VP/ix or Merge386? Recommendations? > >thanks, > >marco I have VP/ix for SCO Xenix 386 but I must admit I have not installed it yet. I am intimately familiar with Microport V/386 and Merge/386 and I will repeat my opinion, I would not dignify it by calling it excrement. I wasted a lot of time, effort, money, and grief with it. I am equally familiar wiyh the Locus effort for AT&T's 6300 PLUS and it is a smooth and effortless product. That was a large part of my rationale when I selected Merge/386, I liked Locus and I liked their work. It's not fair to try to compare a '286 DOS/Merge product with a '386 effort, the machines are too different. Where I got derailed was by buying Microport because I thought Locus was good. In fairness to Microport, I have two V/AT (286) systems and I like them just fine. I will elaborate on why their '386 software is unacceptable (as a non lawyer, I think it's culpable negligence) by email but I don't think you want to hear it. I can also give you two email addresses for satisfied V/386 users (I never was one) but neither use Merge. I can flood you with email addresses of people who feel the same way about Merge as I do. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {killer,att,rutgers,sun!daver,uunet!bigtex}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (08/09/88)
VenturCom is a distributor of ISC's 386/ix. They may also have come out
with a version of 386/ix with their value-added "real time" OS mods,
although this last statement is conjecture based on their advertising,
and not from actual experience. Of course, with 386/ix from Venix or
elsewhere, you can run VP/ix for DOS emulation.
By the way, I should mention that a friend of mine has been writing
a UNIX-like OS for the 8088 which boots itself upon power up, completely
bypassing DOS. VP/ix provided a complete emulation of the IBM PC
"virtual machine" such that his OS booted successfully right off.
He wasn't able to do this under Locus' DOS Merge for the 386.
--
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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