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From: hart@cp1.BELL-ATL.COM (Rod Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: *** XENIX on 8086 based Machine ??
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Date: 19 Dec 87 01:29:56 GMT
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Summary: Xenix on 6300

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> >	Does any versin of Xenix run on a 8086 machine. (in particular
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> >	AT&T 6300).  And if so what are the requirements?
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> I would also like to know about using XENIX on an 8086 machine. Mine is an
> THE PC+ XT clone, which is 100% compatible with IBM's.
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> 
Yes Xenix is available for the AT&T 6300 pc. I ran it for about a
year and a half. I just recently remove it from the 6300 and use my
7300 Unix pc for Unix activities. After trying to get the latest
updates from SCO and failing, I decided that my interest should be
directed toward something from a more reliable source. The 6300 had
(2) hard disk and I could bounce back and forth between Xenix and
MSDOS by just rebooting. The one problem that I had was with the
compilers inability to deal with memory segmentation. I really
thought the so called fix disk they promised me would make the
system easier to deal with. After many calls I was promised the disk
would be shipped. That was about two months ago and it still has'nt
arrived. Meantime I decided that I could no longer recommend the
product for use in my company and reconfigured my system to run
MSDOS only (2 - twenty meg drives). The 7300 has been a real neat
development machine and when users need to run Unix on pc type (286)
machines I now recommend the Microport implementation. I for one
feel that Xenix is just about dead and SCOs' support for it all but
proves my case. Good luck and happy hunting!
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Signed by: Rod Hart (WA3MEZ)
	   Minicomputer Technical Support District 
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