Unix & X-Windows on 386SX

[Aris Stathakis]

In <2389 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>In article <1990Nov23.182943.21094 at cs.dal.ca> newsome at ug.cs.dal.ca (SEX MANIAC IN TRAINING) writes:
>        [ he wants DOS under UNIX and X ]

>  Two things come to mind, OpenDeskTop and Dell V.4. Therefore:

>  1) ODT comes on about 60 floppies. By careful selection you can run on
>an 80 MB drive, but 100+ is better. DellV4 comes on 150MB tapes only at
>the moment (since you can make 60MB releases, they could, just a
>marketing decision). DV4 takes about 100MB for a start.

ODT comes on tape too.  It comes as version 1.0.1


>  ODT supports a reasonable bunch of displays and modes. DV4 supports
>640x480x16 (but better stuff is in beta, etc).

>  ODT doesn't include a developments set, you can get one for something
>like $1500. When you do it cross compiles to OS/2, DOS, Xenix[23]86,
>etc. DV4 includes the AT&T compiler, and actually doesn't do a bad job.
>GCC will be available for V.4 soon if it isn't already.

Don't forget ODT includes CodeView debugger too!  And the Product
Engineering Toolkit (which lets you make 'custom'-installable
products)

>  ODT has C2 security, DV2 doesn't, but has shadow password. Both
>companies consider this a feature. I would gladly pay another $200-300
>for ODT with the security ripped out, but if you are running a system
>under constant attack by spies or hackers it has some benefits.

DV2?  You mean maybe DV4? :-)  Strange.  I was under the impression
that AT&T wouldn't let you call your product UNIX V.4 unless you had
at least B2 security.  I could be wrong though..

Aris

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