'386 Unix Wars

[Bill Heiser]

In article <1990Dec22.134904.25395 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>
>your board shouldn't effect you being able to install 16 megs - my
>problem relates to the address that the board requires for proper
>operation.  Computone in their wisdom designed a board which requires
>256k to run - even through they only have 128K on the board.  I don't
>have 256k free below 1 megabyte.  I've went round and round with 

I couldn't find anything in the documentation for the AST board saying
anything about any memory address.  I guess since it's not an intelligent
board, maybe it doesn't have any of its own memory?

>I usually have 4 users on my machine downloading (we all know
>very few BBS users actually upload), 1 X session (with 6 applications),
>complete news processing for 15-18 machines (of 1100+ newsgroups),
>plus a couple of telnet sessions - and I really could use more memory.

Larry, what kind of video hardware are you using to provide adequate
performance in X?  I don't use X much myself, because this little Multisync
II (14") and ATI VGA Wonder (only supported to 640*480 in Esix X) just don't
cut it -- too small and too slow on re-draw.

>Plus - I plan on opening up shell access on nstar.rn.com - then
>users will have access to word perfect, and all the other utilities
>and tools which consume memory (like the compilers and such)..

What made you decide to start offering shell access, Larry?  A while back
you mentioned that you were concerned about the potential security risk
here.

I haven't seen much posted from you for a while (until the past few days).
Have you been away?

Bill Heiser
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