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From: gt1342a@prism.gatech.EDU (PLACENTA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: 386SX laptop machine as a UNIX box
Message-ID: <4919@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 90 18:43:34 GMT
Reply-To: gt1342a@prism.gatech.EDU ()
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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When I said that SCO sez "Don't use 386SX machines for 386DX specific software
because it doesn't work properly," I was quoting Byte magazine of last month. 
Anyone with any doubts may check for his or herself.  Thanks for the snotty
comments in the mail, though, /dev/null appreciates them.  Let me explain that
the article in Byte, which I was advising people to check out, says this far
mor eloquently than I.  The issue is NOT, I repeat, NOT incompatibility within
the 386/386SX processor.  The key word is BUS.  Yes, the 386DX and 386SX are
the same inside, but the 386SX is on a 16 bit bus.  THIS IS THE POINT.  SCO
claims that their software does not work properly in a 16 bit 386SX machine,
and since it is their product, one could probably trust them.  Byte also throws
some cold water on the hope of using a 386SX machine as a unix box all on their
own.  I'm not about to retype the contents of the article - anybody who is
interested for any reason in what Byte has to say on the subject can read the
magazine.  Any problems with what they say need not be addressed to me; address
it to Byte.  Any more premature, Nasty mail sent to me will be forwarded to
/dev/null.  Next time, before you flame, why don't you check out the facts?

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