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From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: 386SX as a unix/xenix box
Message-ID: <55b402a37fSM01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 09:23:03 GMT
References: <4899@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: kelly@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <4899@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1342a@prism.gatech.EDU () writes:
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>Someone mentioned the use of a 386SX Laptop as a portable UNIX box.  I read
>in the Unix in-depth about SCO Xenix that most PC 386 unices do _NOT_ operate
>reliably in a 16-bit environment.  SCO most emphatically suggests that you do
>NOT use SCO Xenix/386 in a 386SX.  Pity and a shame, though.  You'd have to
>look at last month's BYTE (I've lost it), and I don't think it goes in depth.
>
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 Sorry guy but you are way out in left field on this one...
even though the 386SX presents a 16bit(multiplexed 32 bit) bus to the
outside world IT IS A FULL 32 BITS WIDTH INTERNALLY(on the chip itself)
furthermore Xenix 2.3.2 from SCO runs just fine although more slowly
than a full width 386... really read your intel component descriptions
before more misinformation is propagated... note that I dont work for SCO
I am just one of their highly satisfied customers...(wish I could say that
about my other unnamed vendor for 386 unix...)
     cheers
     kelly