ludwiga@fbihh.UUCP (Arne Ludwig) (02/02/90)
neal@mnopltd.UUCP writes: >->I have a (potential) customer who has an Altos 586 system running Xenix >->What CPU (I suspect an '286) is in there? >Ho ho ho. keep going. like maybe back to a 8mhz 8086 if i remember right. >(this baby predates the AT...) Ah no. It is a 10 Mhz 8086, and it's surprisingly fast. Something around 1500 Dhrystone (1.1) as far as I recall, but at least quite a few more than what you get on a VAX 11/750, which is still in use in many places. >->Is the Xenix a special Altos >->version; and does it have any quirks? Not really. (If you don't count symbolic links, networking and other nice features ;-) The C compiler is v7-style (e.g. 6-char names) and data is limited to 64k. What you need is a really fast hard disk and 1M of memory. The buffer cache on my 512k system is about 50k ... -- Arne Ludwig ludwiga@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de tmpmbx!tchh!rrzbu!arne