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From: rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Message-ID: <399@nrcvax.NRC.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 89 20:29:49 GMT
References: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: rick@nrcvax.UUCP (Rick Wagner)
Organization: Network Research Corp., Oxnard CA
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In article <13110@s.ms.uky.edu> munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) writes:
>Here are my experiences with alternate PC operating systems.
>I would like people to respond with their opinions and experiences.
>
>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. ls takes 5 to 10 seconds. hello world in C
>took over half a minute to compile (without errors), on introducing an
>error it took around a minute before giving the error message.
>I know this was not the best combination of flavour of Unix and
>operating system, but my guess is that even a 25 MHz Caching 386 with
>enough RAM and a 16.5 ms ESDI wouldn't be as fast as DOS.

We run SCO Xenix 2.2 on AST 386's (16Mhz I think), 2Mb ram, with
Micropolis 18Ms HDs.  I just tried the above, hello-world took 5 seconds
to compile and link (from hello.c to a.out).  ls commands are usually
blindingly fast.  Sounds like Microport or your system has problems.


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