ed@swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) (02/27/91)
Hi all, We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable and are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on this machine. Has anyone else done this? If so, any pointers, tips? I am aware that Toshiba does market it's own Unix but we have software that will definitely work under 386/ix. Not too sure about Toshiba's. Thanks for any help. Ed
mca@medicus.com (Mark Adams) (03/02/91)
ed@swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) writes: > We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable > and are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on > this machine. Has anyone else done this? We have successfully installed INTERACTIVE UNIX version 2.2.1 on a T5200 with 8 Mb of RAM and a 200 Mb hard disk. No major problems to report. We also installed an Archive VP150e cartridge tape drive with a VP402 tape controller; using INTERACTIVE's "ct" tape drivers, it works fine. We haven't done anything with TCP/IP on the T5200, so I have no idea if it works. > If so, any pointers, tips? - The T5200 won't support bus mastering cards, so our attempts to install an Adaptec 1540B failed. (We wanted a SCSI tape drive.) - Although the T5200 has an 84-key keyboard, the Unix keyboard driver is led to believe that it has a 101-key keyboard. If you're writing an application that cares (as we are,) you'll have to work around this. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Adams Medicus Systems Corporation mca@medicus.com Clinical Data Systems {uunet,sun!rtech,unisoft}!medicus!mca Alameda, California
alexb@cfctech.cfc.com (Alex Beylin) (03/03/91)
In article <188@swift.UUCP> ed@swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) writes: >Hi all, >We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable and >are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on this machine. >Has anyone else done this? If so, any pointers, tips? I am aware that Toshiba >does market it's own Unix but we have software that will definitely work >under 386/ix. Not too sure about Toshiba's. Thanks for any help. > >Ed At some time in the past we have installed both the Interactive 2.2 and SCO (not sure about the version number) on Toshiba laptops, with no problems. That is, we got the core systems and uucp running. Unfortunately, the unit in question had a 40 MB hard disk drive, so nothing else would fit! Performance seemed tolerable, except when we made it swap, but that is to be expected.
chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) (03/08/91)
In article <188@swift.UUCP>, ed@swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) writes: > Hi all, > We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable and > are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on this machine. > Has anyone else done this? If so, any pointers, tips? I am aware that Toshiba > does market it's own Unix but we have software that will definitely work > under 386/ix. Not too sure about Toshiba's. Thanks for any help. > > Ed We one T5200 to be used as a portable Unix box. Worked fine -- the config was a T5200 w/200M hard disk, 8M memory. X Windows also worked fine. The version of ISC installed was 2.2. I'd heartily recommend the T5200 with use w/ISC. ----- -- Jerry Chan 508-853-0747, Fax 508-853-2262 |"My views necessarily reflect the Chan Smart!Ware Computer Services & Prods | views of the Company because Worcester, MA 01606 | I *am* the Company." :-) {m2c,jjmhome}!chansw!chan \---------------------------------
rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett) (03/10/91)
In <188@swift.UUCP> ed@swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) writes: >Hi all, >We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable and >are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on this machine. >Has anyone else done this? If so, any pointers, tips? I am aware that Toshiba >does market it's own Unix but we have software that will definitely work >under 386/ix. Not too sure about Toshiba's. Thanks for any help. >Ed At work we picked the Toshiba 5200c/200 to use for our sales force. The 5200c is the full color vga screen. The screen is real nice if you don't have anything that moves around much as there it has a rather long persistance. Other than that We are real happey with them so far. We are configuring them with 200 MB drive and 8 MB ram. I have also added the Telebit Trailblazer 1000 internal modem. I set the systems up for 60 MB for dos (4.01 comes with them) and the rest for unix. The Interactive package (It was wild to receive 16 sets of both the unix runtime and the X11 runtime at one time (( big boxes))) installs without any problems (make a copy of the install disk before you start and use it) runs without a hitch. We have installed our product (field sales programs) both the regular version and our new X version and no problems yet. If you want the top of the line in portables I would recomend the 5200 and the Telebits run just fine in them (for those of you not aware the 5200 has 1 full AT slot and on 1/2 slot internal) and the salesmen are estatic about the high speed after having used 2400 baud on Grids and earlier Toshibas. -- Randy Jarrett WA4MEI UUCP ...!{emory,gatech}!wa4mei!rsj | US SNAIL: P.O. Box 941217 PHONE +1 404 493 9017 | Atlanta, GA 30341-0217