david@csource.oz.au (david nugent) (09/14/90)
Is anyone currently running SCO or Interactive Unix (or any other 386 Unix
for that matter) on a 486 box?
In particular, I need any information about experiences with:
a) ISA bus technology, running a 386 Unix (which ones currently
support ISA?)
b) Ethernet cards available for the ISA bus, and which tcp-ip
software is available for them (and does it work? :-))
c) Any problems running a 386 Unix on a 25 or 33 MHZ 486 box
The proposed system will be:
486 box, 16-20 meg of RAM
tcp-ip; using GARP (Gateway's Novell tcp-ip bridge) with all the
usual hardware requirements, supporting up to 40 connections
tape drive (any around which work with ISA?)
intelligent serial card, 16-32 ports (ditto)
We've set up equivalent systems using 386 boxes with an AT-compatible bus,
and had a few problems with the faster machines, and found a few problems
which could be worked around, but the requirement here is _definitely_ for
a 486, or possible a 386 with a dual processor card.
Any information appreciated. Please respond by mail - I'll post a summary
if there is any interest.
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Internet/ACSnet: david@csource.oz.au Uucp: ..!uunet!munnari!csource!davidti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) (09/14/90)
In article <742@csource.oz.au> david@csource.oz.au writes: >Is anyone currently running SCO or Interactive Unix (or any other 386 Unix >for that matter) on a 486 box? > >In particular, I need any information about experiences with: > > a) ISA bus technology, running a 386 Unix (which ones currently ^^^ > support ISA?) > ... > >We've set up equivalent systems using 386 boxes with an AT-compatible bus, I think by ISA you mean EISA? ISA: Industry Standard Architecture (i.e. IBM AT 16-bit bus) EISA: Extended ISA (32-bit) Obviously both SCO and ISC UNIX supports the ISA bus, and since the 486 on a AT-clone platform appears essentially identical to the 386, they should work. Now, although the EISA bus is a functional superset of the ISA bus, there are a lot of features and performance gains that will not be available to you unless you are running true EISA expansion cards and an OS designed to take advantage of the EISA-specific features. At present, neither SCO nor ISC has any special support for EISA other than in "ISA-compatible" mode. I believe currently Altos UNIX is the only 386/486 UNIX specifically adapted to EISA, but they are supported only on the Altos line of 486 EISA boxes. -Ti -- Ti Kan | vorsprung durch technik! \\\ Internet: ti@altos.com \\\ UUCP: ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!ti /// \\\ The opinions herein are not necessarily those of Altos. ////////\