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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Xenix for 6300
Message-ID: <1592@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 00:21:00 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1592
Posted: Sun Nov 10 00:21:00 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:16:55 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh
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In article <2349@ukma.UUCP> david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) writes:
>Do any of the xenix's for pc's run on the 6300?  (I would expect
>problems from the screen driver for instance).  

Not so.  The 6300 display hardware looks IDENTICAL to the IBM color
display board (even if you have a monochrome monitor.)  It even
snows if your program isn't careful.

I've run the vanilla Xenix (intended for the IBM XT) on my 6300 and
it works well.  All the screen stuff (which is pretty fancy and does
lots of writing directly to memory) works fine.

The only differences that Xenix notices are that the clock runs about
10% too fast, and the 6300 has a clock/calendar which Xenix doesn't
know about (so you have to set the date/time manually.)  And, of course,
things get done in half the time.  Xenix System V has facilities to
handle both incompatibilities.