dlucy@tropez.UUCP (Doug Lucy) (02/16/90)
We're hoping to start porting our s/w to X Windows in June and I'm looking to put together the hardware for our development. The eventual "picture" should look like: Unix V/386 3.2 running on a 386-33 w/ cache 8 Mb RAM TCP/IP using a WD8033E card X11R3 development sys Locus's DOS Merge (to allow Windows/386) The real testing will occur on 286-based "terminals", on which: MS-DOS running on 286-12 1-2 Mb RAM TCP/IP using WD8003E Cardinal VGA 512K 16 bit card (1024x768x16, 800x600x256) Samsung SyncMaster 2 Interactive and AT&T are the two vendors currently in the running. My questions: What's wrong with the above picture? Am I missing something? What TCP/IP should I put on the 286 terminal? Is there a DOS PD version? Should I consider getting X11 somewhere other than Interactive or AT&T? How does the MIT distribution work? What can I expect (or not) in the way of printer drivers? Will we be writing our own Epson 7-color or Kodak CVP? Thanks for any help. -- "It's such a fine line between clever..." < Doug Lucy DC Pro > "...and stupid." < uucp: uunet!tropez!dlucy > "Yeah, stupid." < bbs: 703-370-8672 >
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (02/19/90)
In article <139@tropez.UUCP> dlucy@tropez.UUCP (Doug Lucy) writes: >We're hoping to start porting our s/w to X Windows in June and I'm looking >to put together the hardware for our development. The eventual "picture" >should look like: > > Unix V/386 3.2 running on a 386-33 w/ cache > 8 Mb RAM ... >The real testing will occur on 286-based "terminals", on which: > > MS-DOS running on 286-12 > 1-2 Mb RAM ... I haven't had any direct experience with 386 boxes, but that sounds like a very small amount of memory. On an 030 people usually seem to want 16meg for development and 8meg for running. I don't know if that's true on the 386, but I can't imagine it being *that* different. Comments? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | BBS line is still dead | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+