khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) (01/15/91)
Hi, Does any body know if Xenix can run on 80486 machine ? Does it need a special version of Xenix ? Will the Xenix-386 OS work on 80486 machine ? Has any body tried this ? I would appreciate if any one has this experiance gives some comments ? Thanks khioe@mona.jpl.nasa.gov elroy!mona.jpl.nasa.gov!khioe
bent@lccinc.UUCP (Ben Taylor) (01/15/91)
khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) writes: >Hi, Does any body know if Xenix can run on 80486 machine ? >Does it need a special version of Xenix ? Will the Xenix-386 OS work on >80486 machine ? Has any body tried this ? No special version is needed for Xenix as far as I know. The hardest part about setting up a 486 for the first time was the d*mn EISA configuration right. Once that was done, it was installation as normal. >I would appreciate if any one has this experiance gives some comments ? According to some benchmarks I ran, our Compaq Deskpro 486/33L was 3 times faster than a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 with a coprocessor for in-core processing. (Ram disks/shell commands/etc), with disk access, your mileage will vary. I'm waiting for the 486 to come back so I can test the X11R4 distribution on it. >Thanks >khioe@mona.jpl.nasa.gov >elroy!mona.jpl.nasa.gov!khioe No Prob. Ben Taylor Systems Administrator LCC Incorporated. lccinc!uunet!bent
mike (Michael Stefanik) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan14.224427.27778@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) writes:
:Hi, Does any body know if Xenix can run on 80486 machine ?
:Does it need a special version of Xenix ? Will the Xenix-386 OS work on
:80486 machine ? Has any body tried this ?
:I would appreciate if any one has this experiance gives some comments ?
We have a few customers running 386 XENIX 2.3.2 on a 486 (16M of memory,
1.2G of disk, Exabyte DAT, etc.) and the machine works swimmingly.
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