Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!amdahl!dacseg 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 Lines: 15 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