Can you run Sys V/AT on a 386 box?

Karl Denninger karl at ddsw1.MCS.COM
Sun Jul 23 16:00:28 AEST 1989


In article <225 at opel.UUCP> johnk at opel.UUCP (John Kennedy) writes:
>Question:
>
>Is there any reason that a Sys V/AT wouldn't run on a 386 CPU board?
>Granted, there are unique initializations for the 386 processor, 
>but shouldn't that be handled by the BIOS before boot?
>
>Anyone doing this?  It seems like a nice migration step.

We did this for about two months.

It works -- you have effectively a fast '286.

It is no less or more buggy than the straight 286 microport though, which may 
be either a blessing or a curse :-)

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