brian@TALOS.UUCP (Brian Kim) (02/20/91)
I have few questions I hope someone can answer. Thanx in advance! I've got 386-33 Cache (64K) system with 8M 70NS DRAM. I have 150M ESDI drive with 32K cache on the HD controller. I have one 3.5" 1.44M and 5.25" 1.2M floppy drives. I have been mostly a MS DOS user at home. I'd like to switch either to a SCO UNIX, SCO XENIX, or an Interactive 386. 1. Can anyone tell me which is a better buy. I've been working in the SVR3, SVR4, ULTRIX, and VMS environment for a while but I'm not all together familiar with the PC version UNICES. Any technical and insightful information will be greatly appreciated. Yes, I do plan on programming on them. 2. This is a minor consideration. I'd like to know if any PC UNICES allow dual boot from the hard disk. A friend of mine told me that in SCO XENIX or maybe it was TANDON PC that allowed him to enter which partitions or floppy to boot off of. I don't want to get rid of DOS completely as I have invested money and time. I'd like to set up DOS as the first HD partition and UNIX as the rest. On UNIX's "boot: " prompt, I'd like to be able to specify something like "/dos". I've seen people who boot from a DOS floppy. YUK! I don't want to go backwards in technology. Yes, I have used VP/ix. Yes, that's besided the point. I'd still like to have the dual boot capability off the hard disk. Send me email or post to "comp.unix.sysv386" group on the net. -- Brian Kim at National Political Resources Inc, Alexandria, VA USA Ma Bell (703)683-9090 (UUCP: ...{uupsi,vrdxhq}!pbs!npri6!brian