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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Can AT&T Sys V3.2 run on a generic 386?
Keywords: can it?
Message-ID: <1814@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 01:13:08 GMT
Sender: wfd@neoucom.UUCP
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Hi,

Due to the purchasing requirements of AT&T we bought a bunch of
6386 WGSs with Unix.  Quite a number of offices that got the 6386s
wanted to do stuff like run Netware or DOS only (perish the thought)
on them.  The end result is that we have a number of Sys V + the
Development Set in our inventory seeking friendly computers to run
on.

We're thinking about a HIMS '386 machine.  We've rounded up the
requisite PC, 4 megs of memory, a Paradise VGA Plus /16 card and
are about to get a WD ESDI controller and a yet to be determined
disk drive.  The monitor is going to be a monochrome VGA.

What sort of pitfalls are there?  We know that the HIMS can run SCO
or Interactive, but heck we already bought the licenses for the
AT&T Unix; we might as well put it to good use...

I'd be appreciative for any war stories you can pass along.
Thanks,

Bill  (wtm@neoucom.edu  or  wtm@impulse.UUCP)