jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) (08/28/87)
I'm trying to put together a 80386 UNIX system. I'd like to hear any recommendations/horror stories that the net might have, both Hardware and Software. My requirements: I'd like to get a 16 or 20 Meg 386 system, Hopefully with 3 or 4 Meg of 32bit ram. A 1.2 Meg floppy will probably suffice at first, but I want the ability to upgrade to a tape drive later. I need at LEAST 20Meg of usable file space after the system software is loaded (and swap space allocated). The UNIX has to be native '386, and I'll need a C compiler/program development tools. The availability of a PASCAL would also be nice. I'd like to have nroff, but I DONT need troff. I'll need something like DOSMERGE: I have to be able to run MSDOS software using the UNIX filesystem: I've simply got too big an investment in MSDOS software. (I'd be satisfied if all UNIX tasks were disabled during MSDOS operation, though). I'm something of a hacker, so I won't need lots of hand-holding from a vendor. I AM a bit price sensitive, though: The IBM Model 80 is probably right out. Any suggestions? I suspect the answers would interest the rest of the net, so I will summarize any results. Thanks in advance. John P. Nelson decvax!genrad!teddy!jpn seismo!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!jpn ARPA!talcott!panda!teddy!jpn