Dell UNIX compatibility question

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <1141 at applix.com> scotte at applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:

| Also, DELL only ships on 150Meg tape, right?  Is there a way to get going
| with a SCSI tape drive (i.e., is there a boot floppy kernel with enough
| brains to allow pkgadd from the SCSI tape??)  The DELL guy didn't know,
| and never returned me an answer...

  The boot disk will boot nicely from SCSI. Although Dell refuses to
ship on 60MB tapes, they did for beta testers, and their drivers work
with PC-36, EV-811, Wangtek 5099, 5125... seem reasonably robust.
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