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- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Path: sparky!uunet!osh3!craig
- From: craig@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Craig Nordin)
- Subject: Re: Help with antique Xenix/Informix on Altos Z-80
- Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin.
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:12:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061211.1853@osh3.OSHA.GOV>
- References: <1ej49dINNb9c@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
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- In <1ej49dINNb9c@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> jparker@hpbs2776.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) writes:
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- >>
- >> > 985 runs with a 80186. Xenix provided by Altos.
- >>
- >> Post this to the net, please. The original poster will want to know.
-
- >Already mailed to him directly. Somebody else (was it you?) suggested
- >it was an 80286. My memory is dim on the subject, but the I do remember
- >working on a 986 in late 83 early 84 when they were brand new - I seem to
- >remember this being the, albeit shortlived, age of the '186. It is
- >entirely possible that Altos turned around and changed it to an 80286, but
- >Altos has a habit of upgrading a lot of things when they go to a new chip
- >and coming out with a totally new box for it.
-
- We've got 75 of these 986T models and Everyone around me (the old hands
- included) say it is a 80286 platform. The "T" may mean some sort of
- chip upgrade, I don't know. I wish I had eyeballed the insides of
- one so I could say with certainty. But I do know that I can take
- an executable, compiled on the 2086 model with the compiler flag
- set specifically for an 80286 CPU, and run it fine on the 986.
-
- I know I can't bring that same executable and run it on one
- of our 586 models (8086).
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