Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!sungod!davidsen From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Mylex Motherboards - Why not? Message-ID: <1711@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 16 Aug 89 17:09:19 GMT References: <4843@bgsuvax.UUCP> <17144@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 15 In article <17144@ut-emx.UUCP> allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) writes: | UNIX prices to drop. I do know that Intel says their UNIX won't run | on a 386sx ( you figure the company that makes the processor would | know what to change :-). I don't know about the other UNIX vendors. | I am happy with the Mylex board. It is a good deal for a entry level | 386 board. I bought it from: Has anyone else verified this? Several 386SX vendors have sworn to me that their systems would run Xenix and UNIX. Is this something particular to Intel? I assume that you can tell if the system is an SX or not, but why do it? bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me