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From: grego@scruffy.sgi.com (Greg Orsini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 and 286 Unix OS's
Summary: Don't use MOS-386.
Message-ID: <33814@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 27 May 89 00:32:00 GMT
References: <[232.1]wek@point.comp.ibmpc;1> <25rwmira01@ULKYVX.bitnet>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <25rwmira01@ULKYVX.bitnet>, rwmira01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Rob Miracle) writes:
> In article <[232.1]wek@point.comp.ibmpc;1> wek@point ([Bill Kuykendall]) writes:
> >>I need some information of Unix OS's for PCs.  I am probably going to set up
> >>multi-USER system for some one.  He has a Gateway 2000 386 machine currently
> 
> What I need is something that will allow multi-users accessing a common
> database of information that runs on a 386 machine.  As far as I know, only a
> Unix-like OS will work.  MOS-386 is a consideration, but I have zero knowledge
> of that (other than it is supposed to be DOS).
                           ^^^^^^^  MOS-386.
I cannot recommend using PC-MOS386, but I can recommend against it having used
it for awhile.  It is quite common for it to: 

  - freeze one or more tasks on the system.
  - create garbage files which cannot be deleted.
  - run slow as a dog with only a few tasks.
  - tell you it cannot run the DOS software you wrote/bought.
  - reset itself.

I would avoid this.  It wasn't my decision to buy it, but it was mine to junk
it.

Regards, Greg Orsini                I don't work for Silicon Graphics.
grego@scruffy.sgi.com                  I'm 'just' a contractor.