Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: COM3 with Xenix 2.2.3
Message-ID: <12399@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 22:07:51 GMT
References: <1113@lakesys.UUCP> <3700004@eecs.nwu.edu> <10119@cup.portal.com> <225@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <225@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) writes:

| I have said it before, I will say it again.  RTFM!!!  Com3 and com4 are only 
| for use on the Sperry IT 286 boxes (I don't know about the 386).  Sperry,
| now known as Unisys, has some special logic on the board to handle com3 and
| com4.  It is not available and will NOT work on any other computer.  Also,

  I had a chance to get one of the Sperry boards, and called SCO to see
if it would work on non-Sperry systems. They told me it would. The
Sperry guy I got it from also indicated that they were running it in a
clone in the Sperry office (the customers get delivery on machines
before the offices).

  I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but all parties seem to think it
would work. The person I spoke with at SCO said that the whole story of
special support was not related to the board I have.

  Note I haven't tried it, I just asked the people who should know.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me