wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (10/14/87)
Does anyone have any experience with running unix (either xenix or sys V.3) on a Vesta 386 box? The Vesta purports to be a $2700 "Compaq 386" clone. The price is certainly right. Here is what got me interested in this box. Specs: 1Mbyte dram, 40 Mbyte ST-261 hard disk, 1.2M floppy, WA-2 fd/hd controller, 1 serial port, 1 parallel port, clock, 200w power supply, 101 key keyboard, all for the $2700. I don't have one of these boxes (yet), but I know someone that does. He says it works just fine for DOS, for what that's worth. -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht UUCP: mirror!mit-mgm!wolfgang <add us to your host table> ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP addr 18.82.0.114)
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (10/14/87)
In article <1594@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes: | | Does anyone have any experience with running unix (either |xenix or sys V.3) on a Vesta 386 box? The Vesta purports to be a |$2700 "Compaq 386" clone. The price is certainly right. | My wife is configuring one of these for a customer, and I will be trying to get ???ix/386 up on it, depending on the time available. I'll post after I do it. There were notes in the 80386 mailing list from several people who have this. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
postmaster@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (10/15/87)
In article <1594@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, Wolfgang Rupprecht writes: > Does anyone have any experience with running unix (either > xenix or sys V.3) on a Vesta 386 box? The Vesta purports to be a > $2700 "Compaq 386" clone. The price is certainly right. I have one, running DOS and Microport V/386. I haven't had much chance to bang on the UNIX yet (I need more of the special 100ns SCRAMS to keep the kernel from choking) but it's a sweet machine, fast as all-get-out (at 16Mhz with no wait states it ought to be!). And the Vesta people are friendly and helpful. I recommend it. -- Eric S. Raymond UUCP: {{seismo,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax,sdcrdcf!burdvax,vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (10/20/87)
Xenix/386 runs.
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me