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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: Unix close for 486 - commens requested
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:59:31 GMT
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In article <CByvHr.AMJ@egr.uri.edu>, black@cs.uri.edu (John Black) writes:
> It's possible to have too much machine. I'm sitting on a
> Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V that was purchased to run LynxOS. Its got
> a fancy VESA local bus, fast hard drive, zippy video card, and
> runs Windows 3.1 like greased lightning. It can't even load Lynx
> though, because...well, nobody really knows. If I cripple the
> machine by diabling cache, turbo, IDE block mode, etc., it will
> sometimes boot Lynx, but usually not.
>
[stuff deleted]
I use BSD/386 from BSDi - it's based on the BSD Net-2 release.
It costs $1000 with source ( $595 ish ) without and is proving
to be a reliable system. I'm pretty sure it will run on a
Gateway box - BSDi has a 60 day no questions asked for a full
refund warranty if is does not. You can ftp to bsdi.com, there's
are hardware compatibility file in there listing system configs
people are actually using.
If I were to recomend BSD/386 as highly as I would like I would
probably get flamed for using the net for commercial purposes!
[ NB - my only relationship with BSDi is that of happy customer. ]
>
> John Black
> black@cs.uri.edu
>
Guy
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