7 Dec
1997
7 Dec
'97
4:52 p.m.
Anyone know of a minimum unix or unix-like OS that will run on the following
config:
Zenith Supersport SX
386sx-16
640k
110mb HD
VGA mono
I know about minix, but am looking for something a little more robust, since
I have heard TCP/IP and other such apps don't run well or not at all under
minix. If someone can tell me otherwise, I'll use it.
- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
7 Dec
7 Dec
12:51 p.m.
Anyone know of a minimum unix or unix-like OS that
will run on the following
config:
Zenith Supersport SX
386sx-16
640k
110mb HD
VGA mono
I know about minix, but am looking for something a little more robust, since
I have heard TCP/IP and other such apps don't run well or not at all under
minix. If someone can tell me otherwise, I'll use it.
Please dig up more memory at least 4-8mb and plug in and you will be
happy, the hd is tad tight but doable, but you could swap the hd out
for bigger ones. I think this one uses standard IDE 3.5" or 2.5" hd.
I had minix on a SLT 386s/20 with stock 2mb and 270mb but due to
s/w and popularity, prefer linux and trying to do it on my lte
386s/20 instead, look for the latest emails for this problems...
If the bios does not support bigger hd, just pick one to help lilo to
boot, the linux does not use bios once running, it will see all the
hd space. Neat feature MHO. That CPU 386sx/16 performance will be
main problem especially trying to compiling things will be days!
(mine is 25mhz instead of 20mhz with 4k cache helped some on that
linux! But not yet to compiling the kernel yet because of current
problems to trackle namely, lilo.)
Troll
- John Higginbotham
- limbo.netpath.net
6:42 p.m.
John Higginbotham wrote:
Anyone know of a minimum unix or unix-like OS that will run on the following
config:
Zenith Supersport SX
386sx-16
640k
110mb HD
VGA mono
I know about minix, but am looking for something a little more robust, since
I have heard TCP/IP and other such apps don't run well or not at all under
minix. If someone can tell me otherwise, I'll use it.
With that configuration, the _ONLY_ Unix-like OS's are Xenix 1.0,
Venix and QNX and _maybe_ two or three other items pre-1988. With
more memory, you have more choices and many of them are functional
-- those listedabove weren't adequate for their _own_ time, although
SCO learned fromRadio Shack improved quickly. I know a SuperSport
SX will take more memory and I have run SCO Unix SysV on one --
slowly, but it worked OK.
--
Ward Griffiths
Two thousand yeare since Bethlehem and still we hear the lie,
that after years of hopes and fears the best part's when we die.
7:15 p.m.
Anyone know of a minimum unix or unix-like OS that will
run on the following
config:
Zenith Supersport SX
386sx-16
640k
110mb HD
VGA mono
I know about minix, but am looking for something a little more robust, since
I have heard TCP/IP and other such apps don't run well or not at all under
minix. If someone can tell me otherwise, I'll use it.
I'm afraid Minix is it. If you can increase the memory to 2Mb, 4Mb would
be a lot better you could get Linux installed. I've run Linux with
X-Windows on a Twinhead 386sx which was a 386SX/16 with the Mathcoprocessor
added, stepped up to 4Mb RAM, and the 40Mb HD replaced with a 350Mb HD. I
ran this from January of '94 through March '95 when I needed a laptop and
couldn't afford a new one, I'd bought this new in '90. It was a real step
down from running Linux on my 486DX/33 with 20Mb RAM. Back in '94 there
was a "Lite" version of X-Windows for reduced configurations, and it ran
pretty good, don't know if such a thing still exists. One thing you don't
want to do with a 386SX/16 is any programming, it takes forever to compile!
Although small scripts are doable.
On an not so interesting note, the 40Mb HD now functions as a CP/M disk for
my Pentium, and the Laptop is now a general purpose terminal. The 486,
well it's the Server that ties my various platforms together, running Linux
of course.
Zane
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8 Dec
8 Dec
11:31 a.m.
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, John Higginbotham wrote:
Anyone know of a minimum unix or unix-like OS that
will run on the following
config:
Zenith Supersport SX
386sx-16
640k
110mb HD
VGA mono
Looking ahead in my e-mail queue I see there is a flurry of responses to
this question, and I can guess what everyone else' response is as well.
But I have two syllables for you: Linux.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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