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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AT&T unix V386 on Compaq hardware?
Message-ID: <12245@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Feb 90 19:35:15 GMT
References: <1990Feb27.044606.14253@csustan.CSUStan.Edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <1990Feb27.044606.14253@csustan.CSUStan.Edu> robert@csustan.CSUStan.Edu (Robert Zeff) writes:
>I would like to install AT&T unix on my Compaq 386/20.  Does AT&T sell their
>unix for hardware other than AT&T?  I could use SCO unix, but I would like
>to use the same unix as we have at work, which is AT&T.

I'm not quite sure what you think the problem is.
UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T; anyone selling a product
labeled "UNIX" should be doing so with AT&T's approval, which
means that their product is derived from AT&T's official source code
for UNIX System V and passes AT&T's System V Validation Suite.

Because of architectural differences, you cannot simply pick up the
3B2 source code and magically obtain an Intel 386 version of UNIX
from it; considerable porting effort is required.  In fact, AT&T and
Intel had an arrangement to produce an officially sanctioned port to
the 386 architecture, and that version is available for licensing
through Intel last I heard, although you may be better off getting a
copy from a value-added reseller.

There are several releases of UNIX System V; the most recent is
Release 4.0 and I don't know whether or not a 386 port of that is
available yet.  I do know that UNIX System V Release 3.2 has been
available for the 386 for some time now.