386i & Security Block Device on Printer Port?

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From: Mark Lawrence
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 03:10

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We are an ISV with products that currently run under DOS and because of
increasing sofphistication of the engineering code involved, are making
the strategic move to Unix (I don't even want to THINK about OS/2).

Anyway, we want to purchase a development platform that gives us both
development environments.  Options are a 386i or a '386 AT bus machine
running SCO Xenix with VP/ix.  Our product (and another product we
distribute and support -- Ansys) requires a block security device on the
printer port.  Does anybody with experience with either the 386i or VP/ix
know whether the printer port works exactly as expected if the machine
weren't being shared between two OS's?  Anybody use a product in either of
these two environments which required a security device and have it work?

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Subject: 386i & Security Block Device on Printer Port?
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