Steve_Gale@TRANSARC.COM (06/29/90)
I'm interested in installing a Unix development environment on my personal 386 machine which already has MS-DOS and Turbo-C. Here are my options: 1) DOS enhancers: MKS, Shareware, or Freeware. These make DOS a lot more palletable, but you still have the 640k memory restriction, and they are kinda kludgy (no multi-tasking). I'd have to use Turbo-C which has the classic DOS 2 byte end-of-line problem. 2) Unix toys: Coherent, Minix. These are close to my ideal price ($100) but they use the small memory model. I heard there are patches to Minix for the 386, but I'm not sure how stable they are. They don't support virtual memory. 3) "real" Unix: ISC, ESIX, Microport, SCO. These are the real thing but they cost a lot of money (9 times catagory 2 above) and they often include things I don't need like TCP/IP, NFS, X-windows, nroff, etc. Is my summary of options accurate and complete? Any recomendations? Right now I'm leaning toward Minix... Thanks, Steve Gale@transarc.com