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Article #3630Upgrading 386 for UNIX and DOS - disks? SCSI? Mice? COM boards?
From: Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus...
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 20:34
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 20:34
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I'm planning to upgrade my old 16MHz AT&T 6386. I want to be able to run AT&T UNIX SVR3.2.2 and MS-DOS/Windows (in separate partitions.) 1) Can I use a SCSI disk, or should I use ESDI instead? Do the standard OS drivers support SCSI? The current ST506 is too slow. 2) Mice - the standard AT&T bus mouse works ok in UNIX - can Windows 3.0 recognize it also? 3) COM boards - I want to add 2 RS-232 ports, and have them usable from either DOS or UNIX. Will any cheap 2-port board work, or do I have to avoid certain brands? Will the boards come with UNIX drivers, or do the standard drivers support everything? Thanks; Bill -- Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs AT&T Bell Labs 4M-312 Holmdel NJ # Any time you vote for the Democrat or Republican Party, the Government wins.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Upgrading 386 for UNIX and DOS - disks? SCSI? Mice? COM boards? Message-ID: <1990Oct2.203411.28191@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 2 Oct 90 20:34:11 GMT Followup-To: poster Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Random Organization Name Generator Lines: 20