2 Jan
2006
2 Jan
'06
11:35 a.m.
On 1/2/2006 at 1:00 PM compoobah at valleyimplants.com wrote:
beware -- XENIX tends to be very hardware specific,
and at least some of
the Wyse distros were linked to Wyse HW. You may or may not be able to get
it to install. The 2.3 series seems to be more forgiving than the 2.2
series, though. Remember that you will need a serial/activation code to
get it installed and to get the devel environment working.
Does anyone here know how the XENIX 'brand' setup works? it somehow
modifies the binaries, but I don't have the devel environment or a
disassembler so I don't know how.
You're right about the Wyse-branded setup checking for the presense of Wyse
hardware, but it's a simple BOIS ROM check in the very early boot stages
and is easily patched out. I have the complete set of manuals for the
system and development tools as well as driver disks for the Wyse LCD
display and a few other oddities--and I have the activation key. I have
no idea, given the date of the binaries (about 1989) how smart the thing is
about more modern things like IDE CD-ROM drives and hard disks > 8GB.
Cheers,
Chuck