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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <9104182040.41@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 91 05:58:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.141408.27169@eci386.uucp> <9104152203.14@rmkhome.UUCP> <1991Apr16.173457.14365@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr16.225637.463@unixland.uucp>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr16.225637.463@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.173457.14365@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>>
>>>on my home system for about six months, I have become quite attached to it.
>>>I believe that I would rather run Coherent than other 286 UNIX ports.
>>
>>why is that?  If you were to get a 386/20 with lets say 8 megs of ram -
>>would you stay with coherent?
>
>I think the key phrase here was "286 UNIX ports."   I'd be willing to 
>bet that Rick would be quite happy with ISC or Esix on a 386/20 :-)
>
>Right Rick?
>
>I must admit, after seeing the way Coherent has taken off with the 286
>crowd, and hearing of the things that people like Rick are doing with it,
>I'm pretty impressed.

Well, there will be 386 box in my forseeable future.  I will not want to run
a 286 protected mode kernel on a 32 bit machine.  If the Coherent 32 bit VM
kernel is available at that point, I will probably go for it.  Otherwise, I
would probably use ISC, since I have had a fair amount of experience with
their package.

A few years ago I played around with XENIX on a 10 mhz 286.  Using it was
like watching paint dry.  Coherent on my 12 mhz 286 is fairly responsive,
and reasonable for hacking on.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP