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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Summary: unix, of course
Message-ID: <1989Nov2.182727.2538@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 2 Nov 89 18:27:27 GMT
References: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <13110@s.ms.uky.edu> munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
>I recently installed Unix (Microport) on a 20 MHz (Non Caching) Compaq
>386 portable. It has a 100 MB 28 ms HardDisk and 3 MB of 80 ns RAM.
>It was ridiculously SLOW. ...

I use 386/ix on a 25MHz Intel 302 with an ESDI disk and 8MB of 100ns RAM.
It is pretty fast.  I used to have 4MB of RAM, and it's considerably faster
with 8.  I imagine with 3MB it'd be awful.  386/ix has a much faster and
smarter disk driver than Microport did, but extra memory for buffers and
to avoid paging makes all the difference.  (And adding the extra 4MB cost
less than $500, too.)
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John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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