Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!cod!myers From: myers@cod.NOSC.MIL (Margaret E. Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Unix for 386 inquiry (moderately long) Summary: What are good Unix systems to run on a 386 clone? Keywords: UNIX, XENIX, 386, recommendations Message-ID: <1796@cod.NOSC.MIL> Date: 22 Feb 90 21:32:11 GMT References: <1581@cernvax.UUCP> Reply-To: myers@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Margaret E. Myers) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 47 I haven't seen this question asked in the last week and a half, so I thought I'd give it a try. I want to find out more about Unix environments for 386 machines. So far the only packages I can get information about are Xenix and Unix from SCO. Info about me and my machine...I am used to doing C programming on various suns running SunOS 4.0.3, so I am Berkeley oriented. I have a 386 clone with 4 meg of memory (64K cache), and a 120 meg hard disk. Really, I want this system to do C development of (application-type) software that I can run on the 386, but also port to other Unix systems. Questions: 1) About Xenix vs. Unix from SCO. Is there any real difference between the two (other than price)? SCO tells me Xenix is really System V version 3.1 and Unix is System V version 3.2. I don't know enough about System V to tell if that makes a difference. 2) Running DOS applications under Unix/Xenix/Whatever. How is it to run DOS applications (like Ventura) under VP/IX with Xenix (or some equivalent Unix/DOS combination)? Is the performance acceptable? Is it wise to invest in such software or would it be just as good to have a separate DOS partition on the disk. I ask this because my understanding is that running DOS windows on a SPARCstation gives one the performance of a unaccelerated PC/XT... 3) AT&T and Intel. I have heard that AT&T and Intel are marketing (will market soon?) Unix for the 386. Any idea how much these systems cost? Who sells them? Does anyone like/dislike either one? Are they bundled into separate packages like the SCO products? 4) Who else has (386) Unix systems? Are these "full" unixes or just useful shells? What are the compilers, debuggers, like? Who sells them? Thanks for any info you can supply on any part of the above. If you can, please reply by mail. --Margaret Myers Internet: myers@cs.ucsd.edu or myers@nosc.mil Bitnet: mmyers@cs.ucsd.edu (I think...) Usenet: ...ucbvax!sdcsvax!beowulf!myers (I think...)