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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Unix for at clone
Message-ID: <458@spdcc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 01:57:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  9 01:57:24 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Nov-86 00:50:30 EST
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Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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Keywords: "disk ROM's"


> If you want to run XENIX but don't know if it is compatible to IBM in that
>respect then I suggest that you probably take a look at SCO. SCO is very close
>to IBM but it dosen't use the ROM's to get the Harddrive type, both IBM and SCO
>are Sys V Rel 2.

SCO XENIX uses the "ROM's", just like IBM XENIX.  Golden Bow Systems makes
a ROM set that plugs into the spare ROM sockets of an AT and other clones
which will allow just about any geometry disk to be used with XENIX.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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