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- From: raoul@fangio.wa.com (Jeffrey E. Benedict)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Anyone used SparcClassic and/or the Solaris 2.1 included with it?
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 13:54:57 PST
- Organization: J. Benedict Computing
- Message-ID: <01060100.mp85g8@fangio.wa.com>
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- > Moving down the cost levels, I understand Tenon's MachTen is a
- > full implementation of Mach UNIX for about $600 and up that I
- > could run on the Mac LCII 4/80 we currently have at home. We
- > might require a little more memory and/or storage. Opinions?
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- I've looked into this. Your hardware is plenty big, but you might
- want more drive space if you want to keep the kiddie's games! :)
- A problem is that the "real" cost is $1000 with the development
- system- including a GNU complier and tools. If you are going to
- do any hacking, this would be necessary.
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- > Finally, has anyone used Coherent 4.x? I intend to learn UNIX
- > but finances are very tight right now, so I figure a 386 with
- > Coherent (total system+OS under $1000) might be a good start.
- > I mean to become a competent UNIX sysadmin, in practice and I
- > hope by profession, so might a 386 be inadequate for my needs?
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- I haven't used this, but it is my understanding that it is a bit slow,
- but OK. There is a review in Nov/Dec 92 "Sys Admin" magazine (info@rdpub.com)
- of Coherent. They liked it mainly for the reason that it ran many
- SCO apps out of the box. Another benefit of Coherent would seem to
- be their 1200 page manual which discusses it "all"!
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- Linux is just about to 1.0 and there is much discussion on comp.os.linux.
- An added benefit is that it is free!
-
- Jeff
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- Jeffrey E. Benedict- raoul@fangio.wa.com - Port Townsend, WA. USA
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