can you run unix on Tandy 1000 SX's?
Andy Valencia
vandys at hpindda.HP.COM
Fri Apr 8 04:18:55 AEST 1988
/ hpindda:comp.unix.microport / bcs212 at vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan)
>Does microport make a version that will run on a non-286/386
>IBM compatible. My SX is 1.4 times as fast as an XT - will I grow
>old waiting for it if I try to run some flavor of unix???
SCO sells XENIX for the 8086/8088. Yes, it works. Yes,
you will grow old waiting for it. You'll do much better to
sell it for a couple of hundred dollars, then go get a '286 or
'386 clone. I recommend '286 unless you NEED the 32 bit address
space--those '386s can be *flakey*.
Andy Valencia
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