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From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
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Subject: Re: Stuff
Date: 18 Feb 1993 03:02:33 GMT
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In article <1993Feb17.213603.27673@samba.oit.unc.edu> David.Ross@launchpad.unc.edu (David Ross) writes:
>     Hiya.  I'm getting a PC soon, and I would like to run some sort of
>unix.  The problem is, I'm not really sure if 386bsd would be right for
>me.  I'm not even sure about anything about it.  Is there some general
>text file somewhere telling me all the general stuff about it?

ftp INSTALL.NOTES from wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors4/386bsd/386bsd-0.1

>  (ie: cost,

Nothing.

>if it can do X, 

Yes, XFree86 1.2 is the package that people are using now.

>if it requires that you not use Windows, etc.)

Microsoft Windoze?  MS-Windoze requires the MS-DOS operating system,
and 386BSD is a different operating system.  You can still maintain a
DOS partition on your drive, so you can keep your DOS side alive if
you want, but you can't run MS-Windoze from within 386BSD.  You can
run X-Windows, though (see above).

Paul Southworth
pauls@umich.edu