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From: glen@sungate.UUCP (Glen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Help on SCO Xenix
Summary: Wrong CPU
Keywords: cpu kernel
Message-ID: <459@sungate.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 14:47:23 GMT
References: <1991Feb04.214445.14435@asdnet> <91058.011828JLA103@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91058.011828JLA103@psuvm.psu.edu> JLA103@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>A friend of mine lent me his SCO Xenix to test it out.  I seem to have a prob.
>with it,  I think that I might be because of my stupidity, but here goes.
>Is there anyway to get sco xenix 386 to boot up / install on a 286?  i have
>tried just about everything.  Am I overlooking something?

No. There is not.  The 386 kernel uses 386 instructions not available on
the 286 CPU.  There is a separate version of Xenix for the 286, available
from SCO or any of us resellers.

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