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hello again… I just saw an ad in DDJ, #186 Mar 1992, p 15; Consensys (800-387-8951) is selling a complete SVR4 X11r5 developers' kit for $495 (on tape; $575 on floppies)! From the ad, it appears to be nearly identical to MST, except the later X11 release. It looks to…

Howdy! MST Unix works– I've taken RISC/6000 tar files on floppies, uncompressed them, tarred, compiled, and run them under X11/Moti f (pardon the screen screw-up); my favorite is xroach, which makes squishable cockroaches that run around and hide under your windows. The down side of MST Unix: no printed manuals!…

Actually, it turned out to be $700 for complete system! I've corresponded via e-mail with someone who's using it, and seemed pretty happy, so I bit the bullet and put it on plastic. I'll set up MST Unix in about two weeks; I'll let you know how it works out!…

Hello again! I contacted Marc Snitily via E-mail, and he suggested (NOT recommended) I try a company called Micro Station Technology, in Cupertino. They sell a complete SVR4 system, with X11 development and Motif, for $1200…with Tom Roell's Xserver. I've found one satisfied customer, but I'm curious if you know…

Thanks for your time. I may try the BSD386 system (described in DDJ), but I'm told the production version won't come out until June. It will be about $1000. for everything, but it looks like I'll have to get a tape drive 1st (another $300.). I've decided to keep my…

I called Snitily's (sp?) r.e. getting gcc and X11 binaries to run on top of a "minimal" SCO or Interactive system. I was a little disappointed by the response, which may just show my naivite about Unix. They told me that I would probably have to get the developers' system…

I would like to set up a (moderately) inexpensive Unix/X11r5 system on my 486/33. My plan is to get a basic Unix 386 file system from SCO or Interactive, then buy pre-compiled binaries for gcc and Xwindows from Austin Code works. I have no idea if this will work as…