11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
1:26 a.m.
On November 11, Richard.Sandwell(a)roebry.co.uk wrote:
I have an Apricot Xen 'mainframe' which is a
286 based msdos generic from
1986. Its not ibm compatible. Comically, it does have a copy of Windows V1
on its disk which runs, well, like all versions of windows ;-)
Its role was a fileserver for an ms-net network, hence the awful
'mainframe' name. I've always been intrigued that there was a port of
xenix available for this machine - anyone know anything about that, or
about xenix on a 286 based system in general?
I ran SCO Xenix 286 on a few 286 systems back in 1988 or so. It was
abyssmal. I don't remember much about it...I think I blocked it
out. :)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL