Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Unix for a 386-PC? Summary (627 lines) Message-ID: <655@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 23:09:03 GMT References: <8909290807.AA17277@euler.Berkeley.EDU> <629@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <39233@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 44 In article <39233@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes: | |I suspect the poster just doesn't know | |what s/he's doing. | | It's possible that we're not talking about the same version of the | software. In any case, I gave honest, experienced opinions about two | of the UNIX's in question. As both a user and a developer, I'm not | entirely sure I'd like to use Xenix anyway; it's environment is | sufficiently strange as to make development somewhat difficult. Take | my advice or leave it, but don't question my abilities. | | jim frost | madd@std.com I guess I didn't say that as clearly as I might have... I did not mean your incompetent, just unfamiliar with the system. In addition, I believe that you were using an older version of Xenix, although the 386 version hasn't been around that long. I may never have installed xenix in a tiny root partition, and it may indeed complain if you do so. If that's what you meant I think you may have described it somewhat strongly and I believed you meant some non-functional failure mode. As far as I can tell you can set the swap to any value, but if you want a value outside the suggested range you answer 'yes' when asked about block-by-block control over allocation. Then you can set the starting and ending blocks of each partition including swap, and diddle with the order of the partitions if you have a reason to do so. It's in the manual, but I doubt that I found it the first time, either. I won't get into non-standard. If BSD and naked ATT are standard, xenix isn't. Someone might say that there are more copies of xenix than any other flavor of unix (but since I can't find the source for that belief I can't press the claim). The ix/386 custom scripts are (or were) not totally bulletproof, and I managed to have an adventure using them. I have no doubt that I didn't know what I was doing ;-) -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon