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From: stowaway@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Jef Pearlman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Questions (New System, XFree/86, *BSD)
Date: 22 May 1994 08:57:14 -0400
Organization: MIT LCS guest machine
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I am planning on purchasing a new 80x86 based computer system, with
either MS-DOS or OS/2 on one 540 meg IDE drive, and a flavour of unix (most
likely a *BSD) on another 540 meg IDE drive. I have a couple questions relating
to this system, and any help would be appreciated.
NOTE: Please respond be e-mail, so as not to clutter up the newsgroup. ;)
NOTE: If this appears (in similar form) twice, I apologize. I posted it (I
thought) 3 days ago and it never appeared in the group and I got no
replies, so I figure for one reason or another, it didn't go up.
1) Originally I was planning on purchasing the PCI ATI Mach32 w/2 megs on board,
because of its relatively high Windows and DOS speeds, and the fact that it
was supported by XFree/86. Now it seems I may not be able to get that card,
and I need a few things. First of all, I remember that there was a list of
supported cards periodically posted, but I can't seem to find it. If someone
can point me to it, please do so. Also, I may be able to get the Matrox
Atlas, but I have no knowledge of this card. If anyone does (including
overall speed and whether it's supported by XFree, it might be useful.
Finally, if anyone out there has suggestions, good experiences, or bad
experiences with certain cards, please tell me them! The only thing I
remember is that ATI was supported, the Viper wasn't (except for generic
VGA modes), and that my Trident would have been unbearable.
2) I know from the various flame-wars (especially about the proposed merger)
that FreeBSD and NetBSD have their own points, their own philosophies, and
their own features, advantages, and disadvantages. However, if anyone knows
where I can find these features to compare and decide which is best for me,
it would be great. (I mean other than searching the NewsGroups for a month
and collecting pieces of articles :)
3) Where can I find one (or several) of the various multi-boot utilities? Also,
if anyone has advice about which to choose, especially given my
setup (I can give more info if you need it), it would probably make my life
less hellish when I actually get this thing and try to put it together.
Thanks!
Jef Pearlman
stowaway@bronze.lcs.mit.edu
P.S. More questions to come, possibly. Brace yourselves :)
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