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Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Unix close for 486 - commens requested
Message-ID: <1993Aug19.201739.26060@Seagull.RTD.COM>
From: dsiegel@Seagull.RTD.COM (Dave Siegel)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 20:17:39 GMT
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From article <CByvHr.AMJ@egr.uri.edu>, by black@cs.uri.edu (John Black):
> It's possible to have too much machine. I'm sitting on a
> Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V that was purchased to run LynxOS. Its got
> a fancy VESA local bus, fast hard drive, zippy video card, and
> runs Windows 3.1 like greased lightning. It can't even load Lynx
> though, because...well, nobody really knows. If I cripple the
> machine by diabling cache, turbo, IDE block mode, etc., it will
> sometimes boot Lynx, but usually not.
>
> It's interesting (to me anyway...) that in the newly formed LynxOS
> mailing list where this issue has been discussed a bit
> no one has reported problems with plain vanilla ISA bus machines.
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> as I've had to do. In my case, a generic '486 would have been better than
> my whiz-bang clone-of-the-month special, at least for running something
> other than MS-DOS/Windows.
Well, the problem is with LynxOS, not with having too powerful a machine.
That setup will work fine for most of the OS's related to the groups you
cross posted to. LynxOS is a _Unix-like_ Operating System that was designed
to function real-time from the ground up. These guys have to write their own
drivers for everything...they can't just steal the examples from USL (er,
now USG) and port them right over. It's no wonder than they're having
trouble keeping up with some of the new stuff.
Give it some time. Talk to Lynx about it.
-dave
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