Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Replacement '386 motherboards ?
Message-ID: <845@spdcc.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 88 04:43:11 GMT
References: <539@bronson.UUCP>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <539@bronson.UUCP>, tan@bronson.UUCP (N.R. "Tan" Bronson) writes:
>     I would like to upgrade my PC limited 8mhz '286, running SCO 2.1.3,
> to a '386 running SC0 2.2.
> The features I'd like are:
>     - BIOS which will let me run vp/ix and use my WD1003 disk controller
 
VP/ix doesn't use your machine's BIOS.  It runs a BIOS provided
by Phoenix which runs on the virtual 8086 machine provided by XENIX.

>     How much faster is this going to be than my '286 system ?

Like going from a Z80 to a 286, the 386 is SO much better in every way
than the 286 that it's unimaginable to ever go back.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer