Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!vrdxhq!vsedev!ron From: ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix/Xenix on the 386 - (nf) Message-ID: <644@vsedev.VSE.COM> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 22:29:44 EDT Article-I.D.: vsedev.644 Posted: Mon Jun 1 22:29:44 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 04:13:07 EDT References: <1987@gpu.UUCP> <1700004@altger.UUCP> <153@rabtrs> Reply-To: ron@vsedev.UUCP (Ron Flax) Organization: VSE Software Development Lab Lines: 34 Keywords: Altos, XENIX 286 In article <153@rabtrs> rab@rabtrs (Rich Bilancia) writes: >> altos is shipping xenix-V on their machines 'model 2000'. >> it uses an intel 80386 ( 16.7Mhz, 32kb cache mem ) >> >> questions? details? feel free to mail me! >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Hans Korneder UUCP: somwhere!mcvax!unido!altger!korn > >Yes, but if Altos XENIX 386 is not binary code campatible with all other >versions of XENIX 386 (just as Altos XENIX 286 IS NOT binary code compatible >with all other XENIX 286 products, including Tandy, IBM, and SCO which are >binary code compatible with each other) why would you want to by it? Actually Rich you are quite wrong here, Altos Xenix 286 *is* binary code compatible with SCO, Tandy, and IBM Xenix. At one time I had an Altos 2086 (Xenix 80286 box) in my shop, along with an AT running SCO Xenix V and there where many programs, including The USENET News distribution, that simply would not compile properly under SCO's version of the compiler. However, I was able to port the code to the 2086 and then move the binaries to the AT and they ran just fine! I did this with many programs, in fact I even went as far as to take Altos distributed software and move it over to the AT just for the hell of it, and guess what? Yep it worked too. I have also had occasion to use IBM and Tandy Xenix as well, and they use the same, non-industry-standard-intel, x.out format executables as SCO. -- ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) UUCP: ..!seismo!vsedev!ron INET: vsedev.VSE.COM!ron@seismo.CSS.GOV