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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Summary of Microport SysV/AT Info
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:41:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 17:41:21 1987
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+---- olsen@ll-xn.UUCP (Jim Olsen) writes in <708@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> ----
| Here's a summary of the Microport System V/AT info I recently requested.
|
| > 2. What minimum hardware would you recommend ... ?
| 
| The consensus is that at least 2-2.5 Mbyte of RAM and 30-40 Mbyte of disk
| is required for good operation.  More is better.  Karl Denninger suggests
| that the disk should be voice-coil, not stepper-motor actuated.

I second Karl's recomendation.  I have been using a 28ms STEPPER HD and was
pleased with the response.  I just upgraded to a CDC WREN 80Mb Voice Coil HD
and am amazed at the improvement! Almost as noticable as going from 1MB to 2MB
RAM!

| > 3. Does DOSMerge work well?
| 
| No.  The current beta version is buggy.  

    Must be talking about 0.3...

|					   The released version, supposedly
| available in a couple of weeks, may be better.

    I have version 1.30 and it is a vast improvement over 0.3!  It is based
on the 2.3 kernel (which in itself fixes many things) and is rock solid.
The only complaint I have is that it doesn't gracefully handle my Hercules
monitor: Reflex puts it into graphics mode; switching virtual consoles puts it
back into text mode.  It will be fixed, though... :-)

|						   One should probably wait
| for the released version of DOSMerge, along with version 2.3 of SysV/AT.

  2.3 is good, but there are still a few rough edges.  BUT, these rough edges
are just nits, not show stoppers like there were in 1.36, 2.0, 2.2.0, etc.

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John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher  plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU