Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Chuck_M_Grandgent From: Chuck_M_Grandgent@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX for NEC APC III Message-ID: <9232@cup.portal.com> Date: 18 Sep 88 19:17:20 GMT References: <1740@runx.ips.oz> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3636 As probably one of the few readers with any experience with the NEC APC-III I'll throw in my experiences. While I was at NEC, they did a System-III port to the APC-III called PC-UX. Since the APC-III had very good graphics (NEC 7220 ?), it was interesting and fun. They also did a hardware based virtual memory pagaing ... paging board for PC-UX which helped performance. The NEC APC-III was NOT MS/DOS compatible, and hence the need for the "SLE" board, a.k.a. "SLEeze" board for compatibility. It has its own 8086 and Phoenix BIOS. Don't know what kind of luck you might have with MINIX compatibility, but you MIGHT note that the System-III clone should still be available from NEC Info Systems, if I remember right, 508-264-8000... DO NOT confuse the old APC-III (XT clone) with the newer APC-IV Powermate's (AT clones) which ARE tolerably compatible...