olsen@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Jim Olsen) (09/18/87)
Here's a summary of the Microport System V/AT info I recently requested. Thanks to Karl Denninger, Andrew Ginter, Michael Grenier, Burt Janz, Jay Maynard, Len Mills, and Brad Transue for responding. > 1. Where would you buy it? Five of the seven respondents heartily recommend the Programmer's Connection, 136 Sunnyside St., Hartville, OH 44632, tel. 800-336-1166. Karl Denninger recommends his own company, Macro Computer Solutions, tel. (voice) 312-566-8910, (modem) 312-566-8909. > 2. What minimum hardware would you recommend for a mostly single-user system? The consensus is that at least 2-2.5 Mbyte of RAM and 30-40 Mbyte of disk is required for good operation. More is better. Karl Denninger suggests that the disk should be voice-coil, not stepper-motor actuated. > 3. Does DOSMerge work well? No. The current beta version is buggy. The released version, supposedly available in a couple of weeks, may be better. One should probably wait for the released version of DOSMerge, along with version 2.3 of SysV/AT. -- Jim Olsen olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu ...!{mit-eddie,seismo,linus,lll-crg}!ll-xn!olsen
root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) (09/20/87)
+---- olsen@ll-xn.UUCP (Jim Olsen) writes in <708@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> ---- | Here's a summary of the Microport System V/AT info I recently requested. | | > 2. What minimum hardware would you recommend ... ? | | The consensus is that at least 2-2.5 Mbyte of RAM and 30-40 Mbyte of disk | is required for good operation. More is better. Karl Denninger suggests | that the disk should be voice-coil, not stepper-motor actuated. I second Karl's recomendation. I have been using a 28ms STEPPER HD and was pleased with the response. I just upgraded to a CDC WREN 80Mb Voice Coil HD and am amazed at the improvement! Almost as noticable as going from 1MB to 2MB RAM! | > 3. Does DOSMerge work well? | | No. The current beta version is buggy. Must be talking about 0.3... | The released version, supposedly | available in a couple of weeks, may be better. I have version 1.30 and it is a vast improvement over 0.3! It is based on the 2.3 kernel (which in itself fixes many things) and is rock solid. The only complaint I have is that it doesn't gracefully handle my Hercules monitor: Reflex puts it into graphics mode; switching virtual consoles puts it back into text mode. It will be fixed, though... :-) | One should probably wait | for the released version of DOSMerge, along with version 2.3 of SysV/AT. 2.3 is good, but there are still a few rough edges. BUT, these rough edges are just nits, not show stoppers like there were in 1.36, 2.0, 2.2.0, etc. -- John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU