Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!mybest!moray!uhnix1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Microport SysV/AT Keywords: Microport SysV/AT support Message-ID: <697@splut.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 14:34:47 GMT References: <5156@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 31 In article <5156@netnews.upenn.edu> jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes: >2) This machine does not have much memory (1 Mb), how much sould I have as > a single user, without terminals? I tried running on 1 meg for a while. It was S-L-O-O-O-O-O-O-W. It got faster at 2.6 meg, and faster still at 4. Go spend money on memory. >3) Does Microport use 80287 chip, if present? Supposedly; I've never been able to tell, though, although I don't do much floating point, either. I do have a 287 in my system. There were some bugs on some versions of Microport with the 287; I don't recall the particulars (though I just realized that this mey be causing the double panics I've been having every 36-72 hours lately). >4) The machine has a 70 Mb Miniscribe HD (28 ms). Will this be large enough? It should be, as long as you don't try to keep a full newsfeed around for longer than about 5 days. News is BIG. >5) What Gnu Software will run on this system? (Emacs, Gnu-C, Gnu-C++ etc?). None. Stallman doesn't believe in supporting real-world personal computers, and is heavily infected with "all the world's a VAX" and "if it isn't at least 500K, it isn't worth anything". -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | Birthright Party '88: let's get spaced!