Interactive 386/ix on Toshiba T5200?

[Mark Adams]

ed at swift.UUCP (Edward Betancourt) writes:

> We are presently considering purchasing a Toshiba T5200 portable
> and are interested in knowing if Interactive's 386/ix will work on
> this machine.  Has anyone else done this?

We have successfully installed INTERACTIVE UNIX version 2.2.1 on
a T5200 with 8 Mb of RAM and a 200 Mb hard disk. No major problems
to report.  We also installed an Archive VP150e cartridge tape
drive with a VP402 tape controller; using INTERACTIVE's "ct" tape
drivers, it works fine.

We haven't done anything with TCP/IP on the T5200, so I have no
idea if it works.

> If so, any pointers, tips?

- The T5200 won't support bus mastering cards, so our attempts to
  install an Adaptec 1540B failed. (We wanted a SCSI tape drive.)

- Although the T5200 has an 84-key keyboard, the Unix keyboard driver
  is led to believe that it has a 101-key keyboard. If you're
  writing an application that cares (as we are,) you'll have to
  work around this.

Mark

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