Gotchas, Compatible EGA/VGA Cards, and DWB?

[Orville Weyrich]

I have the opportunity to pick up the latest (last?) version of Microport V/386
with DOS Merge cheap, and am trying to anticipate the proper hardware 
configuration.  My current configuration is:

A 16-MHz double sigma 80386-based AT-clone (Goldstar Technology GST-386)
which is built around a Micronics motherboard and which has an Adaptec 
ACB-2372 rev A RLL controller (1:1 interleave), Seagate ST-277R-1 and 
ST-4096 hard drives, 
1.2 Meg floppy, 80387 coprocessor, two standard RS-232 ports, two standard 
parallel ports, a CGA video board, 2-Meg of main memory, and AWARD BIOS 
version C3.03.  
I am currently running MS-DOS 3.30. 

I expect that I will have to get a version 3.2 of MS-DOS to work with
the DOS-MERGE, and that the ST-4096 will probably not work with UNIX.
I also may have trouble with the Intel Eratum 21 if I do not upgrade
my CPU to a D-step or get an Ironwood adapter. I expect that with only 2 Meg 
of memory, performance will be kind of slow.

QUESTION #1 Are there any other 'gotchas' that I haven't identified
above that I should be aware of?

QUESTION #2 For certain work I need to use MS-DOS with expanded memory, and
a EGA or VGA card.  This implies running MS-DOS directly rather than under
DOS-MERGE. This is no problem, except that I need to install a graphics
card which can be switched into EGA or VGA mode under MS-DOS, but which will
by default come up in some mode that UNIX will be happy with.  Does the net
have any recommendations?  I am considering the Logix VGA1000 advertised in
the Computer Shopper August issue on page 296. Does anyone have experience 
with this card?

QUESTION #3 Does anyone have a licenced copy of the DWB (troff etc) for
Microport V/386 that they would like to sell cheap?

Thanks in advance; please e-mail and I will post a summary if by popular
demand.


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