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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Wanted...Unix for PC
Message-ID: <31860@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 26 May 89 14:38:41 GMT
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Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <43670@vax1.tcd.ie> jagrogan@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
|   Can anyone out there recommend a good version of Unix for a PC?
|If anyone knows of one or can even give me a copy of one, I would be
|very grateful. 

If you have a 386, I recommend Interactive Systems Corp's 386/ix.
It's SysV with some BSD (no jobs, though).  Works pretty well on a 4Mb
system with 60Mb disk, pretty easy to install.  If you want X windows,
make it about an 8Mb system.

If you don't have a 386, SCO XENIX is about the only choice.  There's
also MINIX, a teaching aid that is a complete reimplementation of
Version 7 that runs on 8088, but that's not recommended for people who
don't want to tinker.  Source is included with MINIX.

If you'd like more in-depth information about any of these, email me
and I'll supply it.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@bu-it.bu.edu