Questions on 386, Unixes

[dan at tinton.UUCP]

I am looking to buy my first 'compatible PC'.  I have decided on
a 386/20-25Mhz, ESDI drive, VGA, blah, blah, blah.  I plan to
use the machine for software development; my wife needs it to run
various MS-DOS applications.  I would like to be able to run Unix, as
I am familiar and comfortable with it as a development environment.
(I also am uncomfortable with OS/2, and the idea of having only MS-DOS
on a machine of this power seems a waste; my opinion only!)

Question 1: Can anyone summarize the versions of Unix Sys V that are
available for this machine, where they are available, and what their
relative merits are?

Question 2: I understand that there are utilities available that allow
one to run MS-DOS under Unix (VP/ix, Merge 386, others?).  How is the
MS-DOS application performance when using these?  Can I reasonably
expect to run the latest and greatest flight simulator under MS-DOS 
while I have a long compile running under Unix?  If not, what are my 
options: can I choose Unix or MS-DOS at boot time, and have them
share space on the hard disk?  Are boot times excessive for either?

Question 3: Does anyone care to comment about 25Mhz '386s from
Northgate (elegance), Gateway 2000, CompuAdd, anywhere else?

Thanks in advance.

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Dan Masi             (dan at tinton.tinton.ccur.com)  201-758-7699
Concurrent Computer Corp.
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