koenker@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (10/17/88)
Does anyone out there have any experience running xenix on the compaq-386 portable? I would greatly appreciate any reports of experience with this --I'm contemplating taking the plunge for a portable unix machine (going on sabbatical ...) and this seems to be a plausible alternative. Roger Koenker koenker@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
pete@romed.UUCP (Pete Rourke) (10/18/88)
A testiment to SCO, pporta is a 1 MB portable 386 with 100 MB hard drive. Its like leaving your wallet behind, when I find myself without it. The 1 MB RAM is only a temporary setback. Bringing the system home was tantamount to divorce, a modem or additional RAM would have precipitated bruises, broken bones, or child support. Sabbaticals, I take frequently! I am always stuffing pporta in the luggage space overhead in aircraft. What's difficult, is having to explain to the airport security, what the boot prompt means when one has to plug in the system at the security post to affirm that it is really a computer, and not an interesting container for a bomb. This doesn't allow for late arrivals for the plane. As a salesman, pporta is invaluable. SCO multiscreens are probably as nice as a "hip pocket on a shirt". Managing 3 pricing databases, 1 spreadsheet, word processing, and a customer database, when at a customer sites is great. Being a sales resource in my company, makes having modem attachment to romed (my hub machine, (another Compaq)), like a awesome pager, information gatherer, and support vehicle. I even have a separate L.sys (HDUUCP=Systems) and Dialcodes files to deal with the maddness at motel room. Do I sound like I am a SCO/Compaq zealot? enjoy pete@pporta pete@romed