khouglan@pima.intel.com (Kriss Hougland~) (09/23/90)
Greeting, I hope I don't start a flame war, but her it goes anyway.... I am looking to go to a Unix(tm) format instead of the next version of DOS. I have looked at a few possibilities and talked to a few local people about which "style" to buy. I am looking for suggestions for my purchase or if I should put off the purchase for some time. I beefed up my outdated pc so I now have a 386 with 1 meg on board and 4 meg on an extended card. I am currently running with EGA, but I will be moving up to SVGA (1024X768X256). The systems also has a 80meg drive prestored to 150+ megs. I am intrested in getting (hopefully my PC) to run a Un*x with X11 (R4) and hopefully/eventually go with Motif ontop of X11. (Full developers) Am I going to be fighting an already lost battle? I have seen and did preliminary reading on: SCO MS Xenix Intel Un*x (System V R3 real release and R4) Coherent Any suggestions are welcomed. If you feel your suggestions are great, post them! -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Addresses: !Disclaimer: All information is my own and is not that khouglan@hopi.intel.com ! my employer. "Opportunity came knocking, but I was askah@acvax.inre.asu.edu! in the bathroom." (ME)
karl@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Karl Ihrig) (09/23/90)
(Kriss Hougland) writes: >I am looking to go to a Unix(tm) format > One question: What speed is your CPU? I am running a Bell Tech AT386 at 16 MHz. It is great on ascii text apps. >Motif ontop of X11. > I wish I had a 25 or 33 MHz CPU so I could do that too. >fighting lost battle? > There are times when I wish I had a BSD drived system, usually when FTPing some great sounding source files from the Net only to find out that my SysV 3.2 C compiler barfs on them. Very discouraging! >Intel Un*x (System V R3 real release and R4) You may remember Bell Tech was bought out by Intel, thus my remarks may in some small way apply to Intel Unix. karl...
john@karnak.uucp (John B. Meaders Jr.) (09/24/90)
In article <170@inews.intel.com> khouglan@pima.intel.com (Kriss Hougland~) writes: >Greeting, I hope I don't start a flame war, but her it goes anyway.... > >I am looking to go to a Unix(tm) format instead of the next version of DOS. Try Esix. I am running Esix 5.3.2 Rev D. I have the unlimited version with Development System. You get TCP/IP, Streams, RFS, X11R3, Editing package (no nroff,man, or troff though. I use the text package from Xenix), and others. I have had no problems with it and like the price, around $800 for my package. Motif, NFS, and the documentation are extra. -- John B. Meaders, Jr. 510 Manchester Ct., Hopewell, VA 23806 Voice: 804-451-2983 Net: john@karnak or {sequoia,sulaco,letni}!karnak!john