ccc@anomaly.sbs.com (Cole Calistra) (08/19/90)
I am considering purchasing SCO Open Desktop, Xenix, or UNIX, and have a
question. Will it run under my 386SX, or will I have to get a "real"
386 to run it? Are there any compatibility problems? Has anyone gotten
ODT (especially) to run on a 386SX, 20 Mhz?
Thanks,
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-- I recently brought up SCO-ODT on a 386SX (from PC-Brand; 4MB RAM, no FP, 16MHz sx, 80MB ST-506 disk). Didn't install X or ODT-DATA, but everything else seemed to work pretty good, though I haven't done anything to rough with it. It is appreciably slower than the old 16-MHz 386DX machine we have in the lab running ODT, but not unusable; I rather suspect, though, that running X would be a different story. All in all, I would say that the SX would be a pretty cost effective box for people who need Unix, are running without X and not doing development. -- ken seefried iii ken@dali.gatech.edu "Vee haf veyz off making you talk...release da veasles..."
aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) (08/23/90)
In article <2624@anomaly.sbs.com> ccc@anomaly.sbs.com (Cole Calistra) writes: >I am considering purchasing SCO Open Desktop, Xenix, or UNIX, and have a >question. Will it run under my 386SX, or will I have to get a "real" >386 to run it? Are there any compatibility problems? Has anyone gotten >ODT (especially) to run on a 386SX, 20 Mhz? I'm running ODT on a 20Mhz 386DX (not SX) at work with 8 megs of ram and a 16ms ESDI disk. The Operating System itself is quite fast - and Merge 386 - is **VERY** nice (compared to VPiX). The X-Window environment itself is sluggish to say the least. I believe a co-processor speeds things up quite a bit. If you can get a faster machine - great. The 16Mhz SX should be OK though. Also - if you don't run TCP/IP and NFS (which I do) you'll free up a fair amount of ram and CPU overhead. In my opinion, ODT is worth it just for the Merge-386 :-) Aris -- Aris Stathakis | Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!tabbs!aris or aris@tabbs.UUCP - Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Towed the Wet Sprocket has had - - to have an elbow removed following their recent sucessful worldwide tour - - of finland ..... - Monty Python -