Buying UNIX for a clone
Bill Heiser
bill at unixland.uucp
Wed May 1 09:21:20 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr30.173134.11376 at nstar.rn.com> larry at nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>yes - but if Dell's base machine is a 386/33 with AMI bios and Adaptec 1542B
>- which is standard hardware in my book - who cares?
>
Every motherboard is different.
Every combination of disk drives is different. Just for example, I am
using SCSI because I thought I could just plunk any ole scsi drive on
the bus and build up a daisy chain of drives. As it turns out, with
one combination of drives I just happen to have, I can't run SCSICNTL
or debug on one of the drives! To do so, I need to disconnect one of
the drives. This is just one example of subtle little incompatibilities.
--
bill at unixland.uucp The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
...!uunet!think!unixland!bill
..!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill
508-655-3848 (2400) 508-651-8723 (9600-HST) 508-651-8733 (9600-PEP-V32)
More information about the Comp.unix.sysv386
mailing list