I Got Unix!

[Eric Wang]

Salutations!  After many months of waiting for $$, I espied a great deal on
Microport Unix System V/AT Release 2.3, and snapped it up for $200.  I have
not yet installed it ("Your DRAMs are in the mail" -- yeah, sure :-) ), but
I intend to do so some time soon.

I have a Northgate 386-20 with an Adaptec RLL controller, a Microscience
HH-1060 RLL hard disk, a Video 7 16-bit VGA card, a Digiboard PC/4 multiport
card (no brains on board), an internal 1200 baud modem (possibly Hayes-comp.),
and very little free hard disk space :-( :-(.  Also, the gaping maw has 1 MB
RAM at the moment (but will have 4MB "any day now" -- yeah, sure :-) )

My question is: are there any MAJOR pitfalls I should beware of in bringing
this OS up on my box?  And how much of my modern equipment can it use?
That is, will it think that my amazing wonder machine is just a souped-up 286
with a souped-up EGA?  (Will it even WORK on a 386?)  I will soon sit down to
RTFM thoroughly (all four of them!), but that won't give me the sort of
answers that only experience can provide, which is why I'm asking you.

Post or e-mail useful responses, I don't mind.  If, however, you would like to
request that I go jump in a lake or some such, please e-mail those requests to
me and spare the bandwidth, etc.

Thanks a priori,

Eric Wang
wang at cs.uiuc.edu