cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) (06/03/91)
I hope someone can help me here before I go and buy anything....
Will 386 SCO Xenix run on a 486 Clone ? I am currently looking at
getting a cheap 486 clone to run several terminals, what are the
hardware requirements to run it on a 486, the same as the 386 ?
thanks,
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Resident Computer Science FTP Mutant | Eric.Bvictor@alchemy.UUCP (Victor Michael) (06/04/91)
[] In article <1991Jun3.061736.28833@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
[] >I hope someone can help me here before I go and buy anything....
[] >Will 386 SCO Xenix run on a 486 Clone ? I am currently looking at
[] >getting a cheap 486 clone to run several terminals, what are the
[] >hardware requirements to run it on a 486, the same as the 386 ?
Our firm has contacted SCO regarding this. THEY say the 386 runs
on a 486. HONEST! (but PLEASE call SCO sales)
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Communique On-Line Information System v1.00wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) (06/05/91)
In article <442@alchemy.UUCP> victor@alchemy.UUCP (Victor Michael) writes: >[] In article <1991Jun3.061736.28833@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes: > >[] >Will 386 SCO Xenix run on a 486 Clone ? > Our firm has contacted SCO regarding this. THEY say the 386 runs > on a 486. HONEST! (but PLEASE call SCO sales) I am very happily running SCO ODT 1.1 (and did run 1.0) on a 486/33 with an AT bus. It is very very fast. We simply took the disk out of the old box, put it in the new one and booted. This seems only logical since a 486 follows the programming model of the 386 EXACTly. What you have to look out for is the peripherals. Granted, I hate putting up with the slow bus, but for $3500, I moved from a 386/20 with 7MB to a 486/33 tower with 16MB and 128k cache. (And I still have the 386/20 carcass on the shelf). I gave 2MB of the new ram to disk cache and -voila- compiles and links run 4 to 5 times as fast. Now if I had had about $1500 more for EISA and new disk controllers, I don't think I could keep it busy! My last /usr/adm/messages shows it thinks it is running on a 386 with 387 (which is logically correct except for a small matter of packaging and speed :-)): D10 bits of I/O address decoding Edevice address vector dma comment ----------------------------------------------- Tue Jun 4 22:08:27 ----------------------------- %fpu - 15 - type=80387 F0F1F2F3%fas 0x03F8-0x03FF 04 - unit=0 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0210-0x0217 03 - unit=1 type=F FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0218-0x021F 03 - unit=2 type=F FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0220-0x0227 03 - unit=3 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0228-0x022F 03 - unit=4 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0230-0x0237 03 - unit=5 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0238-0x023F 03 - unit=6 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0240-0x0247 03 - unit=7 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 %fas 0x0248-0x024F 03 - unit=8 type=* FAS/i 2.08.01 F4%floppy 0x03F2-0x03F7 06 2 unit=0 type=96ds15 F5F6%console - - - unit=vga type=0 12 screens=128k F7%parallel 0x0378-0x037A 07 - unit=0 F8F9F10F11%tape 0x0300-0x0304 05 3 type=A F12F13F14GH0H1H2H3H4H5H6%disk 0x01F0-0x01F7 16 - type=W0 unit=0 cyls=1222 hds=15 secs=34 H7H8H9H10H11H12I0mem: total = 16000k, kernel = 4448k, user = 11552k JKLrootdev = 1/40, swapdev = 1/41, pipedev = 1/40 nswap = 20000, swplo = 0, Hz = 60 kernel: i/o bufs = 2000k Tue Jun 4 22:08:31 %disk - - - type=W0 unit=1 cyls=1241 hds=15 secs=34 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, TuckerWare gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US Many [Nobel physics] prizes have been given to people for telling us the universe is not as simple as we thought it was. -Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time In computing, there are no such prizes. -me
jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips) (06/05/91)
In article <442@alchemy.UUCP> victor@alchemy.UUCP (Victor Michael) writes: >[] In article <1991Jun3.061736.28833@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes: > >[] >I hope someone can help me here before I go and buy anything.... > >[] >Will 386 SCO Xenix run on a 486 Clone ? I am currently looking at >[] >getting a cheap 486 clone to run several terminals, what are the >[] >hardware requirements to run it on a 486, the same as the 386 ? > > Our firm has contacted SCO regarding this. THEY say the 386 runs > on a 486. HONEST! (but PLEASE call SCO sales) SCO UNIX 3.2v2.0 has been working on NEC BusinessMate 486/25E and PowerMate 486/25E systems for over a year. SCO XENIX 2.3.2 has also been working on these systems for over a year. -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@ Jeffrey J. Phillips UUCP: jjp@necis.nec.com @@ @@ NEC Technologies, Inc. PHONE: (508)635-6077 @@ @@ "UNIX isn't a philosophy, it's a way of life" - anon @@ @@ CASUAL DISCLAIMER: Opinions are mine - definitely not corporate policy @@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@