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Subject: AT Xenix info
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 11:50:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 11:50:46 1984
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DISCLAIMER:  The following is my understanding of Xenix for the AT.
	     Some information might be wrong.

AT Xenix summary:

The AT Xenix is based on System III, but has lots of Berkeley stuff.
It is coresident with DOS 2.0 and 3.0, and the compiler and assembler
will produce code to run on either 2.0, 3.0, or Xenix.

It supports the following hardware:

	AT model 99 (the one with the hard disk)
	80287 chip
	AT Time-of-day and timer
	DASD
	20M hard drive, 1.2M floppy, and 360K floppy
	Monochrome display card
	Color display card in text mode only
	(I don't know about the new graphics card)
	IBM graphics printers in text mode only
	Serial/parallel adapter

It comes unbundled in three sections.  They are:

1) Operating system:						$395
	Comes on 4 1.2M floppys.  It includes at least:
	Borune and Visual Shells, VI, ED, SED, MORE,
	TERMCAP, CURSES

2) Software development system:					$455
	Comes on 3 1.2M floppys.  It includes at least:
	CC, assembler, run-time library, LINT, MAKE,
	SCCS, ADB, LEX, YACC, STRINGS, XSTR, CSH

3) Text formatting system:					$145
	Comes on 1 1.2M floppy.  It includes at least:
	MM, EQN, TBL, SPELL, VI, ED, DICTION, EXPLAIN, STYLE

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Total price:							$995
Total size:	8 1.2M floppys (9.6 Meg of stuff maximum)