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From: khouglan@pima.intel.com (Kriss Hougland~)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Looking to go Un*x on a 386... Advice wanted
Keywords: Unix systems, purchasing, buying
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Date: 23 Sep 90 05:55:42 GMT
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Greeting, I hope I don't start a flame war, but her it goes anyway....

I am looking to go to a Unix(tm) format instead of the next version of DOS.
I have looked at a few possibilities and talked to a few local people about
which "style" to buy.  I am looking for suggestions for my purchase or if I
should put off the purchase for some time.

I beefed up my outdated pc so I now have a 386 with 1 meg on board and 4 meg 
on an extended card.  I am currently running with EGA, but I will be moving up
to SVGA (1024X768X256).  The systems also has a 80meg drive prestored to 150+
megs.

I am intrested in getting (hopefully my PC) to run a Un*x with X11 (R4) and
hopefully/eventually go with Motif ontop of X11. (Full developers)

Am I going to be fighting an already lost battle?

I have seen and did preliminary reading on:
SCO
MS Xenix
Intel Un*x (System V R3 real release and R4)
Coherent

Any suggestions are welcomed.  If you feel your suggestions are
great, post them!



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