cliff@motcsd.csd.mot.com (Cliff Rodriguez) (01/28/91)
Howdy!
I am looking into buying an hp 486 esia machine. Can anyone tell
me good/bad stories about it? Hp use to have some compatibility
problems in the clone world, how are they now? Any comments on
running unix on it? I have some standard AT cards I would like
to use on it, any problems? Can I get an esia scsi card for it?
Thanks in advance .....cliff
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We have five HP Vectra EISA 486's and we are quite happy with them. Mine is configured as follows: 8 Mb RAM, 150 Mb ESDI HD, ORCHID Pro Designer II SVGA. I run HP's MS-DOS 4.01 and have'nt seen any compat problems w/ any of the apps. I've run under it. HP uses Phoeinx BIOS... All the cards that I have installed so far are 16-bit ISA and they work fine. I have not had a chance to try any 32-bit EISA cards so far, since so few are available. I think Mylex makes a SCSI controller. I recently installed SCO Open Desktop 1.0.0 (which is basically SCO UNIX System V/386 V 3.2.1 plus Xwindows and other goodies) and have had no problems with it (at least not hardware/software incompatibilities). By the way, if you're thinking about buying one, you should know that the Vectras are now heavily discounted by some dealers, for commercial accts. We got ours for $5500 (2 Mb RAM and minus VGA card). Santiago