Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpsmtc1!galew From: galew@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Gale Wolfenbarger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Help! -- Can't get IBM Xenix to run on IBM AT Message-ID: <13280001@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: 15 Jul 88 00:03:25 GMT References: <5471@dasys1.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 23 Believe me you really don't want to know. IBM Xenix 1.0 was a real mess. I got a couple of pages of patches from tech support at Priam and after much grief, I finally got it to boot. Some time later I got some update disks from a local dealer and after that it seemed to stablize. If you are going to use the IBM Xenix, you really want the latest version. I looked into it at the time I was going through this exercise and found that IBM will update version 1.0 if you send in the first page of the manual, an update card (available from your dealer) and $250 per module. This is more than the cost of SCO Xenix. And believe me you would be a lot better off with the SCO version anyway. If you just want to play with it, you can get it up and running. But if you want to use it in production, it would be better to get a current copy of one of the other versions. I haven't tried to run 1.0 with an ega card, but it doen't suprise me that it doesn't work. You may want to contact a local dealer and see if they have the update disks for 1.0. Lots of luck. Gale at HP.