Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery
From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Intel InBoard 386/pc
Message-ID: <13814@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 10 Jul 89 23:35:58 GMT
References: <8@iisat.UUCP> <14909@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Distribution: na
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
Lines: 21

As quoted from <14909@ut-emx.UUCP> by nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem):
+---------------
| I was told by the Intel that the 386/PC was not designed to run
| Xenix (286 and 386) because it does not support the 16 bit processor
| data-path. You should be able to run SCO 86 with no problems.
+---------------

No problems except for the inability to use a flat address space and the
086's inability to trap even a stupid illegal instruction, much less memory
access violations.  (The latter turns a core dump into a wedged machine.)

C'mon, I can get Windows/386 for this thing.  Why not some form of *ix?
(DON'T try to suggest OS/2, even if it's possible to run the creature on
this board.)

++Brandon
-- 
Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc	     allbery@ncoast.org
uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery		    ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu
      Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@<backbone>
NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser