Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!brianm From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Product Marketing Tutorial (was Re: The Amiga is Loosing Ground...) Keywords: Lock, locksmith, door, security, lost my keys, boats, canals,... Message-ID: <782@viscous> Date: 18 Aug 88 17:19:31 GMT References: <2167@ssc-vax.UUCP> <64636@sun.uucp> Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 25 >BridgeBoard and run MINIX on it! Better yet, get the AT bridgeboard and >run SCO Xenix on it! NO NO NONONONONONONONO!!!!! there, got that out of my system. ;-) Let me describe basically how the bridgeboard and the SCO Xenix OS works. The bridgeboard will allow a DOS process to talk to the hardware via the BIOS. This will be for the Video board most importantly, and possibly other hardware. Now, SCO xenix does _not_ use the BIOS at all. It goes straight to the hardware. Therefore, using SCO Xenix, which needs almost exact *hardware* compatability with an AT, on the bridgeboard will not work. I seriously doubt that the Bridge board gives AT *hardware* compatability. brian -- -=-=-=-=-=-=- Brian Moffet brianm@sco.com {ucscc,uunet,decvax!microsof}!sco!brianm My opinions do not in any way reflect those of my employer or my fish. 'Evil Geniuses for a Better Tommorrow!'