jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) (01/20/91)
I'm now shopping for a Unix system and multiport board for a 33 Mhz 386
system. (I have already decided on a 386 motherboard.) The system would be
used as a multiline BBS/pubnix.
My current favorite choices-
Unix-
Intel's SVR4.0 Complete package. It offers a complete system with
all the bonus goodies (TCP/IP, DevSys, NFS, X, etc.) built in. I
can get a complete unlimited user system for $1569 from Programmer's
Connection. This is based on limited shopping though. I have
looked at similiar packages from Interactive and SCO and those two
haven't offered what I want for the same price. Similiarly, UHC's
SVR4.0 platform is more expensive at $1995. However, I am very
concerned about the availability of the Intel package. Is it
actually shipping, if not when? What about other SVR4.0 packages?
One thing I like about SVR4.0 is that it is supposedly very close to
SunOS, which is an OS I have lots of experience with.
Multiport-
I have done quite a bit of shopping in this arena. I have pretty
much decided on the Equinox Megaport 12CS. This is a 12 port board
with a RISC processor on it. The stats on it are impressive, and
the price is good $995 -35% discount. Does anyone have any
experience with this board?
I appreciate any input, and will summarize later in the week.
Also, as a side question, I also have a 286 system. Is it worth putting
Unix or Xenix on it, or should I just keep that on as a DOS machine?
Jim Lick
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jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu | Soon: jim@cave.sba.ca.us larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (01/21/91)
jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes: >Unix- > Intel's SVR4.0 Complete package. It offers a complete system with > all the bonus goodies (TCP/IP, DevSys, NFS, X, etc.) built in. I > can get a complete unlimited user system for $1569 from Programmer's The price keeps going up - we paid $1349 3 months ago. - Intel's product is full of bugs - and they enclose a note saying so. We never got the Adaptec 1542 boot disk to boot on a 1542 - but did get it to boot on a bustek. With IP installed, the kernel will core dump every of couple of hours. UUCP file limits of 2 megabytes. Lot of little hidden problems - I would suggest Dell over Intel. -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0282 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis) regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu}