iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) (12/11/90)
I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford
a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why
not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. So I am stuck
asking here if I have enough drive (40-meg) and enough ram at least 4 meg.
Will it work. Also is the 4-meg mesured by word size or is it 4 megx8
not 4megx16 or 4mrgx32.
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In <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) writes: >I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford >a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why >not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. So I am stuck >asking here if I have enough drive (40-meg) and enough ram at least 4 meg. >Will it work. Also is the 4-meg mesured by word size or is it 4 megx8 >not 4megx16 or 4mrgx32. One of my colleagues (sp?) has SCO ???? running on his sx box and it looks fine. 40Meg disk is a little low, but with a bare-bone system You might get away with it. If, however, You want to install things like ODT (or X), look out for BIG disks (we use 2x76MB, and they're almost full). 4MB mem might be fine, the OS takes "only" about 2 MB, depending on the number of features You enable (STREAMS, ...) -- | Josef Moellers | c/o Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG | | USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.com | Abt. STO-XS 113 | | !USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.de | Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring | | Phone: (+49) 5251 104662 | D-4790 Paderborn |
aris@tabbs.UUCP (Aris Stathakis) (12/12/90)
In <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) writes: >I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford >a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why >not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. So I am stuck >asking here if I have enough drive (40-meg) and enough ram at least 4 meg. >Will it work. Also is the 4-meg mesured by word size or is it 4 megx8 >not 4megx16 or 4mrgx32. SCO UNIX and SCO XENIX will work on a 386SX. I think SCO's mininum requirement for SCO UNIX is 40MB of disk and 2 MB of ram, so you should be ok. Aris -- Aris Stathakis | Bang: ..!uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!tabbs!aris or aris@tabbs.UUCP - - - Never let your schooling interfere with your education. -
ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (12/14/90)
In article <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) writes: >I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford >a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why >not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. SCO unix will run on an sx. I've been running an PCBrand sx with it for severral months. >So I am stuck >asking here if I have enough drive (40-meg) and enough ram at least 4 meg. Disk: not if you want to do anything. Base OS+extended utilities (things like csh and vi)+swap run about 32MB. Thats without networking, dos or X. Certainly without any development tools. Memory: 4 is probably fine if your not running X and/or lot's of people logged in. >Will it work. Also is the 4-meg mesured by word size or is it 4 megx8 >not 4megx16 or 4mrgx32. Memory is measured x8. -- ken seefried iii "A sneer, a snarl, a whip that ken@dali.gatech.edu stings...these are a few of my favorite things..."
fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields) (12/14/90)
What about running it on an SX with an IDE drive? Such as mine...
Doug
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In <18638@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes: >In article <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) writes: >>I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford >>a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why >>not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. >SCO unix will run on an sx. I've been running an PCBrand sx with it >for severral months. ^^ But then, every now and then the CPU gets a little confused B-{) -- | Josef Moellers | c/o Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG | | USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.com | Abt. STO-XS 113 | | !USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.de | Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring | | Phone: (+49) 5251 104662 | D-4790 Paderborn |