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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!magic.cac.psu.edu!dn5 From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Xenon EISA/VLB system suitable for *bsd?? Date: 23 Aug 1993 14:59:24 GMT Organization: Penn State Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <25am0c$m8c@genesis.ait.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: magic.cac.psu.edu X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20 X-XXMessage-ID: <A89E531234013BCA@magic.cac.psu.edu> X-XXDate: Mon, 23 Aug 93 10:57:22 GMT Hi: Please forgive me for a lack of knowledge about the latest PC developments, but I am a Macintosh programmer in real life. I have decided to learn more about the fundementals of unix, and decided to try netbsd. I am looking for a good system to run this on. I need to be able to both compile and use X-type-stuff (I really hope that shared libraries get here real-soon-now). I do have an ethernet available to me (thin). My price limit of $2,500 for the system, including an ethernet card. Looking through Computer Shopper, I am impressed by the Xenon ads, but don't know enough to be able to decide what can work. I now think that I would like a 486 DX2/50 system, with 8 or 16 meg RAM, a large hard-disk (hopefully SCSI), and an accelerated graphics adapter. 1. Is Xenon a reputable company, or did I just fall for a glitzy ad? :-) 2. Should net-bsd or free-bsd work on a system with both EISA and VL-bus? (The display adapter and the disk adapter will live on the VLB.) 3. Has anybody actually used a Xenon system? 4. Is there a a better system (cheaper, faster)? I will summarize replies from the net, but I also follow this group. ()()()()()()()()()()()()() CBEL--Teaching & Learning Technologies ()()() ()()()()()()()()()()()()() ETS--Education Technology Services ()()()()() D. Jay Newman ! We were all born to live with magic, the dn5@psu.edu ! entire human race. We're never more than dn5@psuvm.psu.edu ! half-alive without it. -- Fred Saberhagen