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From: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BEYOND DOS ? WHAT NEXT !
Summary: Your experience may be unique
Keywords: ESIX UNIX fasteR
Message-ID: <611@aablue.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 89 19:33:54 GMT
References: <13110@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Organization: A A Blueprint Co., Inc. - Akron, OH
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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
> ...
>It was ridiculously SLOW. ls takes 5 to 10 seconds. hello world in C
> ...
>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.

Well, I can't and won't speak for every flavor of UNIX, but my experiences
with Everex's ESIX, another Sys. V/386 clone, are nothing like you
describe. I am running it on a caching 25MHz system with a 16ms ESDI
disk, Everex and Imprimis Wren III, and I don't see anything slow about
ESIX. I compiled the elm system shortly after bringing up the system and
including patches, it did the whole job in something like 2 minutes.
I'll confess I didn't time it; this is a subjective approximation. I
had left the room after typing "make" and when I got back from the
refrigerator it was done. :-) :-)

Since I'm the only user on this system, I haven't noticed it being really
faster or slower than what little I could do with Dos. Most of the stuff
I ask it to do, it just flies through. You mentioned "ls" say vs. "dir",
well both commands on my system occur in the blink of an eye. Subjectively,
I would say that ESIX scrolls faster than Dos, but execution time are both
well under 1 second.

I guess what I'm trying to say, is not to let this experience set you
against an alternative. I don't know why your system ran so slow, but
I would suspect you've got a problem with your disk I/O.

jb@aablue
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