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From: steve@altos86.Altos.COM (Steve Scherf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO's ODT does not work on any 80486?
Summary: It certainly does.
Keywords: Altos SCO ODT
Message-ID: <4082@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 00:35:34 GMT
References: <1123@xroads.UUCP>
Reply-To: steve@Altos.COM (Steve Scherf)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1123@xroads.UUCP> firewind@xroads.UUCP (Tom Parker) writes:
>
> ...  So
> TPE gets involved and finds out that SCO has not tested ODT on *ANY* 80486!!!
> Yet they advertize that it runs on the '386 and '486!  Sound deceptive?  TPE
> ...
> So, a little warning to the wise.  I'd avoid ODT if I were you, especially if
> you want to run it on a '486!

Two words about the 486 and ODT:

1] Any 486 that isn't a piece of crap (i.e. truly AT compatible) will run ODT.

2] ODT runs very well (as well as ODT can, that is) on an Altos 5000, a 486
   box. Altos' QA department has exhaustively tested ODT on this platform.

Though SCO may not have tested ODT on a 486, they know through us that it
works on at least one box (they may have similar information from other
manufacturers like Compaq). Therefore, it is at least factual of them to say
that ODT runs on the 486. This is not to say that SCO isn't being deceptive,
however.

-- 
Steve Scherf
steve@Altos.COM    ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!steve

These opinions are solely mine, but others may share them if they like.