Are there any BSD-derived UNIX versions for 386's?
Michael Squires
mikes at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Wed May 29 02:56:37 AEST 1991
1. See Dr. Dobb's magazine for articles by Jolitz et al on the porting of
BSD UNIX to the 386. My understanding is that this will only be made
available to source code license holders as part of the 4.4 BSD
distribution.
2. Buy a used Sun 386i. They are a drug on the market now (one surplus house
had 386i/150's for sale for $2000, new, for months with apparently few
takers). I'd go for a 386i/250; one with a 19" color monitor and 330MB
HD/60MB tape drive went last year for $5000, and the prices should be
lower now by a good bit.
My experience with a 386i/250 was that it was quite a bit slower than a
386/20 running SCO XENIX, especially when the system loaded up. However,
things like X11R4 apparently compile on the 386i without giant hassles.
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