xenix on small intel-machines

[Jeff Liebermann]

On 22 Jun 1998 16:09:03 GMT, ma...@pcuf.fi (Markku Ojala) wrote:

>I would be willing to run some ancient Xenix on a i80286 machine.
>Which versions run on a <80386, and what sorts of hardware would
>they support. The machine i'm thinking about has a 21MB ST506 drive,
>a GE2000 {thin,pair}ethernet-card and EGA display, though i can
>easily get/build another setup and leave this on Minix/DOS as
>i've got it at present.

See:
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/versions.txt
for *SOME* the latest version numbers and:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/sco-xenix
for the Xenix FAQ.

Xenix 286 did not have any ethernet networking.

Xenix 286 will run on a 386 cpu. However, there are some fixed
timing loops in the tape drivers that will cause the typical
ancient QIC-36 tape drive to fail unless you slow down the CPU.

Xenix 386 (tcp/ip 1.2.1) does not support the NE2000 card. You
need to find a 3Com 3C503, WD8003 or WD8013 card.

>I assume it's okay by the license to buy and sell the operating
>system 2hd hand.

Yes. However, unless you have a good reason to run Xenix 286, I
think you're going to be fighting old bugs and hardware issues.
If you can find a 386DX40, 8MB of ram, a decent IDE hard disk,
and Xenix 2.3.4 with tcp/ip 1.2.1, you'll have a much more
useable system.

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