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From: rosso@sco.COM (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: 386SX as a unix/xenix box
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Date: 16 Jan 90 21:58:33 GMT
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In article <4899@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1342a@prism.gatech.EDU () writes:
>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.


This is definitely not true.  Both SCO XENIX 386 and SCO UNIX System V/386
will run fine on a 386SX machine.  The only problem I could forsee would be
a degradation of performance if slower 16-bit memory is used in the machine.


Ross Oliver
Technical Support
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.