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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: advise on personal unix system
Message-ID: <11266@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 15 Jun 88 20:09:40 GMT
References: <1150@gmu90x.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <1150@gmu90x.UUCP> dana@gmu90x.UUCP (J Dana Eckart) writes:
| Like a great many people I am in search of the "perfect" system.  More
| to the point, I want to find a Unix* machine for not much money.  I would

Don't buy a 286 machine. Although I have used one for years, there are
too many problems caused by (a) segmented archetecture and (b) people
assuming that int{same as}ptr.

I have a 386 at home, running Xenix. I tested the SVR3 ports from mport
and INteractive systems, and decided that they were not appropriate for
me, since I need reliability. Their preponents claim that's all fixed
now. I'm told that the BellTech port has no "enhancements" and works
reliably.

If you want real bottom bucks, get a unix-pc, which gives you a linear
address space, sysV+BSD utils, and virtual memory. Not fast but solid. A
2MB mem, 40MB disk version is ~$1500 + about $500 for software. Includes
a builtin 1200 baud modem.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me