Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: hardware question for Xenix/386 Message-ID: <1419@sixhub.UUCP> Date: 4 Aug 90 18:10:21 GMT References: <4285@peora.ccur.com> Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY Lines: 21 In article <4285@peora.ccur.com> tran@peora.ccur.com (Nhan Tran) writes: | any machine. I appreciate if any of you can give me short answers on these | question: | | 1. Xenix/386 work with which BIOS chip (Phoenix, Award, etc..) all of the above, AMI, etc. The BIOS is only used to boot, not to run. | 2. Xenix/386 work with which hard disk (MFM, RLL, ESDI, etc..) all of the above. You need a special (GT) version of SCO stuff for SCSI. | 3. Xenix/386 work with which video (mono, Hercule, CGA, EGA, VGA, etc..) All of the aboue, VGA recomended for X and CGI, all work 80x25. Short answers. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me