jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (09/23/89)
Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me if SCO has released their entire Sys V 3.2 Unix yet, or do they just have the RUNTIME and NO DEVELOPMENT set (as I was told by a distributer)? I haven't talked to SCO yet. How did you order it? (through SCO or a vendor)? I've been getting some mixed signals from various people as to the availabilty and reliability of 3.2 and would like to get some first hand info. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jeff Holmes -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) (09/27/89)
Hi, A few days ago I posted to this group asking for information about SCO's release 3.2. I wanted to know if the development set was available. Well, it is available. My dealer said that they would wait to stock SCO's 3.2 for 6 months to allow bugs to be worked out. Since the upgrade to 3.2 from 2.x.x is $400.00, I opted to get the most recent release of Xenix (2.3.2) and may upgrade later. Question: I know that you need Xenix 386GT to get SCSI support and that 386GT also supports ESDI, but will 386AT also support ESDI or do you need the GT version to get any non-standard interface support? Thanks, Jeff Holmes -- Jeff Holmes DOMAIN: jeff@questar.mn.org Questar Data Systems UUCP: amdahl!bungia!questar!jeff
larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (09/28/89)
> Since the upgrade to 3.2 from 2.x.x is $400.00, I opted > to get the most recent release of Xenix (2.3.2) and may > upgrade later. Does this $400 upgrade consist of a complete upgrade from Xenix 2.3.2 (OS, Developers and TP) to the Unix versions of the same package or only the OS? -- Larry Snyder uucp:iuvax!ndcheg!ndmath!nstar!larry The Northern Star Usenet Distribution Site Notre Dame, IN USA
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (09/28/89)
In article <3428@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>, jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: | I know that you need Xenix 386GT to get SCSI support | and that 386GT also supports ESDI, but will 386AT | also support ESDI or do you need the GT version to | get any non-standard interface support? There are several controllers for ESDI which look just like AT flavor controllers and allow you to run standard AT Xenix/386. The Western Digital is one, I *think* the number is 1007. Dell uses one in their 310/325 series (on which I type this). If money is a problem they also make the WD1006VSR2 RLL controller. This has hardware track buffering and gives about the same performance as the ESDI models, with cheaper hardware. If you need a lot of disk ESDI is probably your best best. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon