msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) (11/06/90)
To make the story short, I've been told that ESIX is good, and is only $500-600, that Microport Unix V/386 is good and trouble free, running TeX nicely, and that SCO Xenix might be what I want, since it is small and memory efficient. I should consider 80 MB of disk a minimum, and 2 MB RAM is either too small or ridiculously small, depending on who you ask. Gnu Emacs (Eight Megs and Constant Swapping!) is pretty bad on 2 MB with Xenix, apparently. 4 MB should be a minimum. (Fortunately RAM is getting pretty cheap.) Thanks again to those who responded. -- Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) *Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture--sounds like the aftermath of a tornado*