Xenix with 80486 machine.

[Ben Taylor]

khioe at mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) writes:

>Hi, Does any body know if Xenix can run on 80486 machine ?

>Does it need a special version of Xenix ? Will the Xenix-386 OS work on 
>80486 machine ? Has any body tried this ?

No special version is needed for Xenix as far as I know.  The hardest part
about setting up a 486 for the first time was the d*mn EISA configuration
right.  Once that was done, it was installation as normal.

>I would appreciate if any one has this experiance gives some comments ?

According to some benchmarks I ran, our Compaq Deskpro 486/33L was 3 times
faster than a Compaq Deskpro 386/25 with a coprocessor for in-core processing. 
(Ram disks/shell commands/etc), with disk access, your mileage will vary.
I'm waiting for the 486 to come back so I can test the X11R4 distribution on
it.

>Thanks
>khioe at mona.jpl.nasa.gov
>elroy!mona.jpl.nasa.gov!khioe

No Prob.

Ben Taylor
Systems Administrator
LCC Incorporated.
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