ray@mfgfoc.UUCP (Ray Lillard) (07/22/88)
Does anyone know of 80386 retrofit kits for the AT&T 6300 a.k.a. Olivetti M24. I would like to preserve my investment in disk drives, power supplies, cabinetry etc... and get better performance with some flavor of Unix. I am currently running SCO Xenix. E-mail responses will be summarized and posted if appropriate. -- Raymond Y. Lillard FOCUS Semiconductor Systems Inc. net: (daver!mfgfoc!ray) 570 Maude Court att: (408) 738-0600 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
ir1@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (Nathaniel L. Beck) (07/23/88)
Applied Reasoning (Cambridge MA, 86(?) Sherman St.) makes a 386 board that works in a 6300. (I have two.) It works quite well, and is one of few (perhaps the only) 386 to work with the ATT - it uses a slot but doesn't need to plug into the 8088 socket. That is the good news. The bad news is that the board was 2K a year ago (and I think that was with a university discount of 20%.) The worse news is that as of my last conversation with them, there wasn't going to be any UN*X that would work on their board in a 6300. But maybe that has changed. In any event, they are quite easy to talk with. I always ask for Howard Marshall at AR, who seems to be able to answer all question. Good luck Neal Beck Dept. of Pol. Sci. email: beck@ucsd.edu