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Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Perstor Controller & Intel 386 Unix?
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Date: 10 Aug 90 02:03:42 GMT
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>Item:1953  About: Perstor Controller & Intel 386 Unix? 
>Author: [Jim Heasley] (*Masked*@bu-ast.bu.edu)
>Date: Tue Aug  7 07:38:23 1990
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>I recently came across an ad for a disk controller from a company
>named PERSTOR which claims to essentially double the amount of
>information that can be stored on most standard disks. From what I can
>gather from their flyer, they provide a controller which uses a special
>encoding scheme and a replacement BIOS for the computer that understands
>the mapping between standard disk types and their encoding.  They claim
>to be Sco Xenix, Interactive Unix, and OS/2 compatible.  
>

Ok.. well, here's what I can tell you. 

   Go for it.

I am (as they told me at Perstore) the first person to have run one of them
undert a Un*x variant (ISC) and they didn't have a clue then but offered to
refund me if it didn't work.

Give it a shot -- it is a sweet card.

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