Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!ugun13!ugum01!josef From: josef@nixpbe.nixdorf.de (josef Moellers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: can I run SCO UNIX (SYSV not XENIX) on a sx Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 07:37:09 GMT References: <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@ugun13.UUCP Lines: 23 In <9952@darkstar.ucsc.edu> iago@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (tsource) writes: >I am going to be buying a sco unix machine that is a sx. I can not afford >a larger machine. SCO said they never tried on a sx but shaw no reson why >not, but refused to let me talk to one their tech people. So I am stuck >asking here if I have enough drive (40-meg) and enough ram at least 4 meg. >Will it work. Also is the 4-meg mesured by word size or is it 4 megx8 >not 4megx16 or 4mrgx32. One of my colleagues (sp?) has SCO ???? running on his sx box and it looks fine. 40Meg disk is a little low, but with a bare-bone system You might get away with it. If, however, You want to install things like ODT (or X), look out for BIG disks (we use 2x76MB, and they're almost full). 4MB mem might be fine, the OS takes "only" about 2 MB, depending on the number of features You enable (STREAMS, ...) -- | Josef Moellers | c/o Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG | | USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.com | Abt. STO-XS 113 | | !USA: mollers.pad@nixdorf.de | Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring | | Phone: (+49) 5251 104662 | D-4790 Paderborn |