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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AST, Dell, Northgate: 386 for Xenix/DOS advice wanted
Keywords: AST, Dell, Northgate, Unix, Xenix, HELP
Message-ID: <1096@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 00:11:12 GMT
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In article <5666@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500sctt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Scott Loban) writes:

| I'm currently deciding between the following three systems:
|    - AST Premium 386/16  \    Each equipped with 4 megs, a cache,
|    - Dell 386/25          >   a 150-200 meg ESDI drive, '387 chip,
|    - Northgate 386/33    /    tape backup, and 1024x768 VGA.

  We have six or so Dells running Xenix and UNIX at work. They work
fine, no problems. Most of these systems have a WD1007 board with their
larger disks, and there are some tricks to using that controller, but
nothing very difficult.

  I haven't tried the AST, and I only tried one Northgate, which worked
fine. For what it's worth.

  The Dell comes with a year of service.
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