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From: pixel@du248-08.cc.iastate.edu (Rauhauser Neal Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Choosing a 386 unix
Summary: Which unix do I buy?
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.040559.10241@fs-1.iastate.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 90 04:05:59 GMT
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Reply-To: pixel@iastate.edu (Rauhauser Neal Robert)
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    I need to select a 386 unix for a system we're installing.
I require the following features:

	1. DOS as a task with no flaky behavior, the
	   user will be a secretary/book keeper 
	   without a lick of sense.

	2. a Foxbase development kit availible for the OS,
	   we have a DOS Foxbase app we need to port.

	3. the ability to have up to eight users calling
	   in via UUCP to download one file of ~80k.
	   The UUCP activities can't disturb the
	   console user (much).

   I currently have information directly from SCO. I would like
opinions on other forms of 386 unix and would especially like
the name of a reputable dealer for this sort of software. The
machine this will be running on is an 8 meg 386/25 with an
intelligent serial port controller and a caching ESDI drive. 


    Any comments will be appreciated,

		Neal