Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utastro!bigtex!pmafire!dave From: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading to unix. Keywords: I agree Message-ID: <594@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 89 18:09:22 GMT References: <1721@ssc.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho Lines: 18 In article <1721@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: > >Seems pretty easy. Sell the IBM dog, get something generic but >decent like an AMI/Mylex motherboard base system with 4MB on >board and some disk. Then buy Microport or ENIX. Total cost >should be <$3000 for the box with 4MB and what you sell the >IBM for should cover the disk drive and software. >-- >Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX > uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl I agree with Phil - the Mylex board works *very* well, and I've had no real problems with Microport 3.0e, once I got rid of the Digiboard 8 port dumb serial card in the system. -- Dave Remien - WINCO Computer Engineering Group (only somewhat confused, now) Work - 208-526-3523 Home - 208-524-1906 UUCP Path: ...!bigtex!pmafire!dave "How can you be in two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all..."