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From: crs@cpsc6b.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Which 80386 system to buy?
Message-ID: <409@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 18:08:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: cpsc6b.409
Posted: Thu Sep 24 18:08:35 1987
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Keywords: 80386 systems

In article <865@sjuvax.UUCP>, cc743810@sjuvax.UUCP writes:
< In article <5501@ihlpa.ATT.COM> kai@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Irwin) writes:
< +	To the original poster: what doesn't run? the only things I've found
< +		that don't run are packages that do direct screen writes and
< +		run only on MDA! There were incompatability problems with 1.0

Even 'direct screen write' programs work fine with 1.21 or later ROM BIOS.

< +		BIOS, but with 1.21 or above, I've yet to see a program that
< +		will run on an IBM XT & AT, and not a 6300! I've seen plenty
< +		of packages that will NOT run on an IBM AT, Tandy, Zenith!
< 
< 
< What WON'T run on an AT&T 6300(+)?
                                ^^^
<  
<      How about IBM's 5250 Emulation Adapter (Latest release)?
<  
<      Also, Intel Aboveboard/PC's won't work with the 6300(+).
                                                           ^^^
<  
<     
< I've personally verified this, using AT&T 6300+ machines, ROM v 2.08B or
                                                ^
< something like that.  An AT&T techie told me that the Aboveboard SHOULD
< work, but Intel says [...]
< 
< Feh.
< 
< Chuck

Again we see someone confusing some incompatibilty problems from the
6300 PLUS with the 6300.  I have seen an Intel AboveBoard work just fine
in a 6300 (I *DON'T* know whether it would work in a 6300 PLUS), but that
still has *nothing* to do with the compatibility of the 6386 to anything
else.

As far as 80386 machines goes, the 6386 is the most versatile around.
(Or, it will be, next month ;-)).

Disclaimer:  Disclaimer? I don't need no steenking disclaimer!

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