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- From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: DTK Motherboards
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.015820.21306@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 01:58:20 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.211748.22040@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <3429@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Organization: University of North Florida, Jacksonville
- Lines: 31
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- In article <3429@ra.nrl.navy.mil> deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Deal) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug24.211748.22040@mksol.dseg.ti.com> kylscott@mksol.dseg.ti.com (kyl w scott) writes:
- >>Hi. I am looking at buying a DTK 486-33/50 (haven't decided which yet).
- >>I remember someone saying that the DTK boards suffered from
- >>"spurious interrupts" which DOS didn't care about, but UNIX
- >>hated. Does anyone have any info on this? Is anyone running
- >>unix or xenix on a DTK systems? Is there a better 486 board
- >>to buy?
- >
- >I don't know about 386BSD on DTK's but I used to support several DTK
- >machines running SCO and Interactive UNIX. The DTK's were very nice
- >machines I particullarly liked the designe and layout of them. We had
- >486/33 towers. I also preffered Interactive to SCO, SCO was very difficult
- >to install and maintain and often had random crash fits. The SCO box's
- >had problems with the 150 meg Archive tape drive hanging the system. The
- >Interactive machine rarly crashed and was up for months.
- >16 MRam, 3.5, 4.25, 150 Meg Archive tapes, 650 Meg SCSI Hard disks,
- >(up to 4) Chase 16 port serial boards, mono display, Keridge BASIC interpriter.
- >We used the machines to replace WANG equipment. The Keridge interpriter
-
-
- Eric S. Raymond in his hardware guide posts to the net says to
- avoid the DTK motherboards like the plague for use as a 386/486 Unix box.
- Hmm, it's interesting to hear someone with *real* experience and
- obviously several versions of the DTK boards have no complaints. ;-)
- Perhaps the company has fixed some problems they used to have?
-
-
- P.S. Don't ask me for Eric's hardware guide because I don't have it.
- I *think* he posts it here and in comp.unix.sysv386 from time to
- time.
-