Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: unix on a '386
Message-ID: <1622@spdcc.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 88 05:20:19 GMT
References: <200002@hpmcaa.HP.COM> <499@flyer.apctrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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VenturCom is a distributor of ISC's 386/ix.  They may also have come out
with a version of 386/ix with their value-added "real time" OS mods,
although this last statement is conjecture based on their advertising,
and not from actual experience.  Of course, with 386/ix from Venix or
elsewhere, you can run VP/ix for DOS emulation.

By the way, I should mention that a friend of mine has been writing
a UNIX-like OS for the 8088 which boots itself upon power up, completely
bypassing DOS.  VP/ix provided a complete emulation of the IBM PC
"virtual machine" such that his OS booted successfully right off.
He wasn't able to do this under Locus' DOS Merge for the 386.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c,mipseast}!spdcc!dyer