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From: naba@grebyn.com (Nabajyoti Barkakati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Questions on 386, Unixes
Summary: Northgate 386 Elegance works fine with SCO UNIX V and X
Keywords: 386 UNIX, X Window System, Northgate, SCO Xsight
Message-ID: <19502@grebyn.com>
Date: 29 Mar 90 15:02:00 GMT
References: <1990Mar27.220913.23305@tinton>
Reply-To: naba@grebyn.COM (Nabajyoti Barkakati)
Followup-To: comp.unix.i386
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <1990Mar27.220913.23305@tinton>, dan@tinton.UUCP writes:

> Question 3: Does anyone care to comment about 25Mhz '386s from
> Northgate (elegance), Gateway 2000, CompuAdd, anywhere else?

I am using a Northgate 386 Elegance 33MHz (the one they advertise in
all the magazines) to run SCO UNIX System V/386 3.2 and SCO's Xsight
X Window System. The system has a 150Mb ESDI drive (Adaptec 2322
controller), 8Mb of memory, both 3.5" (1.44Mb) and 5.25" (1.2Mb)
floppy drives, a Princeton Graphics (14") color monitor plus
a 16-bit VGA card (has 800x600 mode, which SCO's Xsight might support
soon). Northgate sells the complete system for the price shown in
their ads. The latest ads show a similar configuration (200MB disk,
1024x768 display) for lower price ($5,299.00 plus $500 or so, for
the extra 4MB of RAM) which is almost $700 less than what I had 
paid in December of '89.

The system has worked without any problems. I did call tech support
with a few questions and they were very helpful.  I wouldn't hesitate
to recommend the system to anyone.

BTW, Northgate sells the system with MS-DOS (installed on the hard disk).
When installing UNIX, you have to repartition the disk. 

-- Naba Barkakati
   naba@grebyn.com