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From: dacseg@uts.amdahl.com (Scott E. Garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Unix of 386sx (was Re: Mylex Motherboards - Why not?)
Message-ID: <9dda02id4bQ.01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 17 Aug 89 02:38:43 GMT
References: <1711@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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From article <1711@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, by davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (ody):
> In article <17144@ut-emx.UUCP> allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) writes:
> 
> | ...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.
> 
>   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 have personally used the new SCO Unix on a more or less "generic" 386sx
box with no problem.  I think that Intel's comment is probably largely
irrelevant, at best.
		Scott E. Garfinkle