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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell UNIX compatibility question
Message-ID: <3363@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:53:40 GMT
References: <27CAE13D.237A@tct.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <27CAE13D.237A@tct.uucp> jim@tct.uucp (Jim Kunzman) writes:
| Dell's UNIX SysVR4 looks like a tempting deal; however, Dell
| apparently doesn't seem interested in speculating about how well their
| UNIX will run on a non-Dell system.  This seems natural enough so I
| would like to inquire about problems others may have had installing
| Dell's OS on other platforms.

  When I was beta testing it I ran on every spare system I could find. I
had a serious problem finding a machine I could dedicate to it
initially, so it got run on SX's, old moss covered Compaq's, etc. I
found that about anything with a 386, 8MB, and some kind of disk
controller which looked like a WD or 1542 would run, and any reasonable
tape drive would, too.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me