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- From: gilgalad@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin)
- Subject: WANTED: Help for a new PC user
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.045508.15744@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:55:08 GMT
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- Hi. I should have clarified this a bit more in the subject that I'm
- very experienced in computers, but not in PC clones.
- Anyhow, I'm about to buy a 486 machine, and I have a whole suite of
- questions to ask:
-
- -Anybody got a recommendation regarding SVGA cards? I'm leaning towards
- the Tseng ET4000 since the publicly available BSD386 supports this with
- X.
-
- -Can I have multiple OSes residing on my disk if I partition it? Ie,
- can I select a partition to boot off of? I would like to put 3 OSes
- on the same disk: BSD386, DOS/Windows 3.1 (NT when avail), OS/2
-
- -What is the latest revision of the freely available BSD386? Is
- it stable? Has anybody got X11R5 patch level 13 for it? What graphics
- card should I use (I have a Mag Innovision MX15F 15" flatscreen 1280x1024
- non-interlaced monitor)? Does it swap to a file, or do I need to
- make a partition?
-
- -Give me some recommendations for PD/shareware and potentially commercial
- softwares (hopefully inexpensive :) in the following categories:
-
- -graphics and image processing
- -I'd like to have something as nice as ADPro on the Amiga
- -GNU emacs??? Does it exist for Windows?
- -GNU C 2.0??? Does it exist for the PC?
- -all the other std GNU utils?
- -audio (I'm going to get a SoundBlaster or clone eventually)
- -scanner control software (I have an Epson ES300C flatbed color scanner)
- -other nifty utilities
- -...
-
- ie, I've found that most machines and OSes have a "MUST HAVE" software
- list. What is this list for the PC? :>
- I will summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest.
-
-