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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!dtix!mimsy!ra!hightop!deal From: deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Deal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: DTK Motherboards Message-ID: <3429@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: 25 Aug 92 13:13:32 GMT References: <1992Aug24.211748.22040@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Labs (Washington DC) Lines: 26 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 could run the same WANG BASIC code and the 486/33 was about 10 times as fast User support was from 16 to over 40 on any one machine. -- #include <std/*> The Butcher Butch Deal deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil --------------------------------------------------------------------------------