Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mtunx!mtuxo!wmh From: wmh@mtuxo.UUCP (01435-W.HYLAND) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Running AT&T's UNIX/386 on non-AT&T boxes Summary: AT&T UNIX/386 on non-AT&T HW Message-ID: <1978@mtuxo.UUCP> Date: 6 Jun 88 21:15:32 GMT References: <398@irs3.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ Lines: 21 In article <398@irs3.UUCP>, rshwake@irs3.UUCP (rshwake) writes: > > Having recently encountered some rather positive reviews of the > 6386 and/or its implementation of UNIX, I'm wondering if the operating system > alone will work on other 80386 boxes. I'm currently Microport's V/AT on a > Zenith 248, and have experience with AT&T's Simultask running on their now- > abandoned 6300+. Simultask (version 2.5) is/was notably better than V/AT > (version 2.3), thus my interest. > > Ray Shwake > R/S/X Technical Services AT&T's UNIX System V/386 Release 3.1 system has been known to work reliably on competitive 386 AT class hardware notably the COMPAQ and BELL Technologies products. AT&T has not put this UNIX implementation through the rigorous test suite as had been placed on the 6386 though. For this reason and also because competitive manufacturers of hardware may in the future engineer revisions to their products which disrupt the compatibility they presently share with the 6386, AT&T will not warrant the operating system for use on non-AT&T equipment nor provide HOTLINE support.