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From: Nick Clark <skoink@home.com>
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So, Having never heard of those aside from the appropriate partition
type, how do they (PCIX and XENIX) size up with Minix? Better? Worse?

On 14 Jan 2000, Stian Sletner wrote:

> * doehring@mediaone.net (Martin Doehring) wrote:
> | 
> | Nicholas Clark wrote in message <387D7030.DFBB94BA@home.com>...
> | >Also, I think Minix only supports _one_ 3com card... the 3c503 or 509
> | >(don't remember). Their ethernet support is limited, Still, it's the
> | >only *nix that will run on a 286, or even an 8086!
> | 
> |  Not quite (he says as he looks at his copy of IBM PCIX (System III UNIX)
> | dated 1984, for a 256k XT)
> 
> And don't forget Microsoft Xenix. :)
> 
> -- 
> Stian Sletner <stian@sletner.com> -- "Nemo saltet sobrius, nisi forte insanit."
> 

