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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ibm 386 clone / UNIX operating system
Message-ID: <9822@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:44:07 GMT
References: <22745@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  About the hardware... when something sounds too good to be true, it
probably is. I would check with the BBB and get a personal
recommendation from someone on the net before buying.

  About the software... if you want a cheap 386 package, Bell Tech sells
386 UNIX for about $399 (runtime w/o doc for $99!). For reliability you
may want to use Xenix, even though the system administration is not
identical to vanilla SysV. After serious problems with the serial
drivers in V/AT and serious documentation and usability problems in
386/ix, I bought a copy of Xenix/386 for my home machine. It's not
perfect, but I'm still waiting for my first software crash (since Dec
87). 386/ix hung several times and the compiler didn't want to compile a
number of net programs.

  All of these products may have changed since December, and you may
have diferent needs than I did.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me