weyrich@csun1.UUCP (Orville Weyrich) (12/04/88)
I have a 16-MHz 80386-based AT-clone (Goldstar Technology GST-386) which is built around a Micronics motherboard and which has an Adaptec 2372 RLL controller, Seagate ST-4096 hard drive, 1.2 Meg floppy, 8087 coprocessor, two standard RS-232 ports, two standard parallel ports, a CGA video board, 2-Meg of main memory, and AWARD BIOS version C3.03. I am currently running MS-DOS 3.30 and am using TURBO-Pascal type applications. I only want a one- or two-user system. QUESTION # 1: Has anyone brought up some flavor of UN*X on any or all of the hardware described above? Any recommendations? [I realize that I may need more memory -- but how much?] QUESTION # 2: How heavily does UN*X utilize the PC BIOS? I had trouble getting my hard disk to function reliably using Phoenix BIOS, and am concerned about how UN*X will handle my disk/controller configuration. QUESTION # 3: I still need to use this box for MS-DOS applications. Eventually I would like to migrate my applications to UN*X, and so would like to be able to run TURBO Pascal and applications implemented in TURBO Pascal under UN*X with the ability to have the applications under MS-DOS communicate with processes running under UN*X. Some of my TP applications use LIM EMS. Any recommendations? QUESTION # 4: Alternatively, how hard is it to have both UN*X and MS-DOS to reside on the hard disk and choose one or the other when booting? QUESTION # 5: Finally, I am considering upgrading my CGA card to a Paradise VGA-Professional. Will this mess up UN*X? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, ORWJr. -- Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. | UUCP : ...gatech!ugacs!csun1!weyrich Department of Computer Science | University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 USA | MA BELL : (404) 542-1082
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (12/07/88)
In article <336@csun1.UUCP> weyrich@csun1.UUCP (Orville Weyrich) writes: | | I have a 16-MHz 80386-based AT-clone (Goldstar Technology GST-386) which | is built around a Micronics motherboard and which has an Adaptec 2372 RLL | controller, Seagate ST-4096 hard drive, 1.2 Meg floppy, 8087 coprocessor, | two standard RS-232 ports, two standard parallel ports, a CGA video board, | 2-Meg of main memory, and AWARD BIOS version C3.03. I am currently running | MS-DOS 3.30 and am using TURBO-Pascal type applications. I only want a | one- or two-user system. | | QUESTION # 1: Has anyone brought up some flavor of UN*X on any or all of the | hardware described above? Any recommendations? [I realize that I may need | more memory -- but how much?] I'm using the controller and hard disk you mention, but do you mean an 80287? 2MB of memory is tight for UNIX, but it will run. I use Xenix/386. | QUESTION # 2: How heavily does UN*X utilize the PC BIOS? I had trouble | getting my hard disk to function reliably using Phoenix BIOS, and am | concerned about how UN*X will handle my disk/controller configuration. Xenix doesn't use the BIOS. | QUESTION # 3: I still need to use this box for MS-DOS applications. | Eventually I would like to migrate my applications to UN*X, and so would | like to be able to run TURBO Pascal and applications implemented in TURBO | Pascal under UN*X with the ability to have the applications under MS-DOS | communicate with processes running under UN*X. Some of my TP applications | use LIM EMS. Any recommendations? Xenix is available with Vp/ix, which lets you run DOS under UNIX. It mentions LIM memory, but I haven't tried it. It seems to be supported. | QUESTION # 4: Alternatively, how hard is it to have both UN*X and MS-DOS | to reside on the hard disk and choose one or the other when booting? With Xenix you type "dos" at the boot prompt. | QUESTION # 5: Finally, I am considering upgrading my CGA card to a | Paradise VGA-Professional. Will this mess up UN*X? Not Xenix. Sorry I don't want to comment on other flavors of UNIX, I have expressed my opinions before. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me