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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Turning a 386i into a "real" PC
- Message-ID: <15410@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 22:38:48 GMT
- References: <lfs6sgINNin2@cronkite> <1992Nov9.183534.18611@netsys.com>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >>Is there a ROM BIOS upgrade to taek a 386i and make
- >>it a "real" 386 DOS machine?
-
- ...
-
- >I would like to know this info also.
-
- Well, if "this info" refers to "is there a ROM BIOS upgrade", the answer
- is almost certainly "no".
-
- A 386i is best thought of as "a Sun workstation that happens to have a
- 386 and optional 387 as its CPU, and an AT bus as its expansion bus".
- It is *not* a PClone; it has Sun-style CPU serial ports and a Sun-style
- frame buffer, for example. If you get DOS to boot on it at all, any
- programs that think you have, for example, a [A-Z]GA adapter are, I
- think, in for a rude surprise.
-