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
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Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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>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
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