cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/09/89)
In article <1989Nov8.195545.1755@world.std.com>, madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes: > >is an IBM XT. I've heard that this machine is capable > >of running UNIX, but I don't know if it'll be happy > >running X. Will it run X? > > >Does anybody know which type of shell the XT supports > >(or all shells available for it)? > > I think there are only two versions of UNIX which run on XTs, one is > XENIX and the other is MINIX. MINIX is a teaching tool so that's out. > XENIX works fine if you don't want large compute-intensive programs. > X is a large compute-intensive program. There is (or was) also PC/IX, a system III implementation. I believe it was implemented by Interactive and sold by IBM. I used it for a couple of years, and YES it is very slow when compared to a 286 and especially a 386, but at the time most of the work I did was on a PDP 11/70 running PWB Unix with around 40 users and the XT with PC/IX was at least an order of magnitude better. However, in answer to the original post, PC/IX was limited to 64k text and 64k data, so i think this would preclude X. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H de Figueiredo) (11/09/89)
And there's QNX. Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo internet: lhf@aries5.uwaterloo.ca Computer Systems Group bitnet: lhf@watcsg.bitnet University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1