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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MicroPort System V/AT info wanted
Message-ID: <167@bigtex.uucp>
Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 12:10:32 EST
Article-I.D.: bigtex.167
Posted: Wed Dec 17 12:10:32 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 07:17:04 EST
References: <688@scirtp.UUCP> <373@prairie.UUCP> <411@puff.WISC.EDU>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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IN article <411@puff.WISC.EDU>, plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher) wrote:
> I just brought it up on a Kammerman Labs AT (1MB, 40Mdisk)
> It is GREAT, but I'd recomend having more than 1MB ram.  Try 2+ Mb.

Mine runs on a PC's Ltd. /AT, as generic as they come.  Two hard disks, with
drive 0 being partitioned 14meg for DOS and 16meg for unix.

>     My 40Mb Quantum is now really 40Mb and NOT 32M as Xenix required.

My Rodime became a 32meg disk after having been a 30meg for months...  For
the uninformed, uPort lets you specify the number of heads and track, and
all of the other numbers about a drive.  You've not limited to drive type
tables or any other such nonsense.

> on the minus side:
>     it seems slow.  vi(1) takes 12 to 15 seconds to come up
>       with the    "filename"  lines/chars   message (4 seconds under Xenix),

You don't have enough RAM.  As you note above, 2meg is a good number.  I have
three, and run it with 800K dedicated to disk buffer space.  Runs like a
charm.  I also have the sticky bit set on vi and sh.

>     there are no docs for csh(1), although it is included;
>     csh(1) has a bug with environment variables:

The October 23rd release notes with v1.36 indicate that csh(1) and more(1)
are preliminary.  more.help was not delivered either, but less is better
anyway.

> [...] does not have utilities to add/remove users automatically.

I'm looking for a newuser program in good shape to put on my system.  As a
side effect it would do what you want above.  Anyone have a working newuser
program on uPort yet?

> If you order it, be sure
> to ask for the link kit so you can customize your kernel!

In particular, increase the number of inode table entries.  It defaults to
50.  I've increased it to 75 and haven't had any more complaints from the
kernel.
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