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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unix on the ibm pc?
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Date: 16 May 88 18:57:22 GMT
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>>I have asked been asking around if anybody knows of a unix system for
>>for the ibm pc (compatibles...), but the answers were no.

SCO Xenix86 is a good approximation of UNIX.  I ran it quite
successfully on an ATT 6300 (XT clone, sort of).  You want the
fastest disk you can get.  Changing to a NEC processor (V20 or
V30 as appropriate) helps quite a bit.


Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
916-752-1636/0776

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