System upgrade question

[Dennis S. Breckenridge]

In article <1990Mar28.005242.25804 at uplherc.upl.com> jr at uplherc.upl.com (J.R. Westmoreland) writes:

> I want to upgrade to 10Mb Ram and a CDC 94186-442 ESDI hard disk with a
> WD1007V-SE2 or WD1007-WA2 controler.  I will
> probably get SCO Unix 386 since I have not been able to find a BSD port to
> the '386.

I would seriously look at another operating system for the machine. Based 
on the amount of traffic that flows through the xenix news group it looks
like SCO missed the system 5 boat. Any *nix will run with the Western Digital
hardware, its the baseline for AT&T aka ISC aka ESIX aka BELL TECH 
(not exactly but you get the message) 

> Will the proposed upgrade work?
> Is there anything that I need to know about the disk/controler combination?

Other than the o/s proposed changes you should not have any problems. 
Personally I use AT&T software. It does not have the support of ISC
on a non AT&T box, but for the most part it works. My second choice is
of course ISC. Unix requires more memory than SCO Xenix, though 10 megs
is sufficient. My rule of thumb is a meg per user and four reserved for
the o/s. 

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