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From: vandys@hpindda.HP.COM (Andy Valencia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: can you run unix on Tandy 1000 SX's?
Message-ID: <7030003@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 88 18:18:55 GMT
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Organization: HP Technical Networks, Cupertino, Calif.
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/ hpindda:comp.unix.microport / bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan)
>Does microport make a version that will run on a non-286/386
>IBM compatible.  My SX is 1.4 times as fast as an XT - will I grow
>old waiting for it if I try to run some flavor of unix???
    SCO sells XENIX for the 8086/8088.  Yes, it works.  Yes,
you will grow old waiting for it.  You'll do much better to
sell it for a couple of hundred dollars, then go get a '286 or
'386 clone.  I recommend '286 unless you NEED the 32 bit address
space--those '386s can be *flakey*.

			Andy Valencia