Re: Unix for at clone

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From: Steve Dyer
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1986 06:57

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> If you want to run XENIX but don't know if it is compatible to IBM in that
>respect then I suggest that you probably take a look at SCO. SCO is very close
>to IBM but it dosen't use the ROM's to get the Harddrive type, both IBM and SCO
>are Sys V Rel 2.

SCO XENIX uses the "ROM's", just like IBM XENIX.  Golden Bow Systems makes
a ROM set that plugs into the spare ROM sockets of an AT and other clones
which will allow just about any geometry disk to be used with XENIX.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
{linus,wanginst,bbnccv,harvard,ima,ihnp4}!spdcc!dyer

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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Unix for at clone
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Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 01:57:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  9 01:57:24 1986
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