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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone remember the Tandy 6000?
- Message-ID: <id.DFVV.L11@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: old, Tandy, 6000
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1gjr2rINNnhe@uwm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:03:12 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1gjr2rINNnhe@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
- > The school that my church supports has a few Tandy 6000's sitting in the
- > cellar gathering dust... I understand that they're old machines (8086's?)
- > and that they're *not* IBM-PC compatible... but the fellow at Tandy said
- > they're supposed to run Xenix!
-
- yes, at one point most of the installed base of UNIX systems, by number, were
- Tandy 6000s and Model 16s running Xenix. They use the 68000 and a primitive
- custom MMU, from what I can recall.
-
- Why don't you call Tandy for info? Directory assistance, Fort Worth, TX.
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