seth@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (The Master of Disaster,1990) (06/02/91)
I'm planning to get UNIX for my 386 at home, and I have a few questions. I've been looking at SCO and ESIX and can't decide between which one. Any suggestions or person preferences or experiences would be appreciated I know that ESIX comes with an X11 Server, does SCO? With the development systems on each, I get a C compiler, how about other compilers? Which shells do I get(i.e. C K or bourne)? How about hard drive compatability. I currently have a 65meg RLL, but am planning on expanding do they have IDE and SCSI compatability as well as RLL? How about MSDOS and VPIX, how does that work? When they say 2 user, does that mean two users total, or two users on at once? Any other important thing that you think I should know or may have missed would also be appreciated. THANKX in advance. Madison Miles seth@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (06/02/91)
seth@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (The Master of Disaster,1990) writes: >I've been looking at SCO and ESIX and can't decide between which one. Look at Dell and Interactive as well. >Any suggestions or person preferences or experiences would be appreciated >I know that ESIX comes with an X11 Server, does SCO? nope. Dell SVR4 comes with X11R4 and ISC is shipping X11R3 with some of their packages. >Which shells do I get(i.e. C K or bourne)? Dell with all 3, ISC with C and bourne >How about MSDOS and VPIX, how does that work? Yes >Any other important thing that you think I should know or may have >missed would also be appreciated. Yes - Dell SVR4 comes with everything but the kitchen sink - Dell's SVR4 is 1295 list and comes with DOS Merge - and lots of applications compiled to run under their UNIX. -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}