which 386 UNIX?

Charles Marslett chasm at killer.DALLAS.TX.US
Mon Jan 23 13:38:12 AEST 1989


In article <13750 at cup.portal.com>, MJB at cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) writes:
> I have acquired a Everex 386/20 Step with 2megs of ram and a 43meg Priam.
> . . .
> My question is, what UNIX to get? I had been leaning towards SCO over
> Microport, but recently Interactive has caught my attention. I realize that
> Everex is/will be distributing ENIX, but I think I'll stick to something that
> has been on the market and been tested. Considering the hardware, and my in-
> experience with UNIX, which UNIX would be most suitable? One thing, I will
> want to run a few ms-dos programs under UNIX, particularly Excel.  

Excel runs in a graphics mode, and to the best of my knowledge Interactive
is the only vendor pushing any of the higher resolution display modes.

This is all hearsay -- do any of the vendors want to describe their current
abilities (and near term futures...)?

>                              - MJB -

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