Differences between a Xerox 6085 and 1186

aswood at t-online.de aswood at t-online.de
Mon Aug 15 08:58:59 CDT 2016


A 6085 can run Viewpoint, GlobalView and Lisp.

But beware, there are two CPU Versions: MBP 1 and MBP 2. 

Bitsavers Lisp is running on one version, as I remember on MBP 1 only.

-- Andreas

> Am 15.08.2016 um 15:23 schrieb Robert Ferguson <rob at bitscience.ca>:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Are there any hardware differences between a Xerox 6085 (Daybreak configured to run Viewpoint) and a Xerox 1186 (Daybreak configured to run Lisp), or can they run each other’s software?
> 
> In particular, is there anything preventing a 6085 from running the stuff on bitsavers in /bits/Xerox/1186?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob Ferguson


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