Return to BSD News archive
Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5291 ; Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:00:25 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:9230 comp.sys.3b1:4731 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!ptd2 From: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: Need help with AT&T UNIX PC and DOS Date: 20 Dec 1992 07:49:41 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1h18ilINNs4i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <1992Dec18.162224.1@evax12.eng.fsu.edu> Reply-To: ptd2@po.CWRU.Edu (Palmer T. Davis) NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu Followups-To: comp.sys.3b1 In a previous article, tsai@evax12.eng.fsu.edu () says: > > We have several AT&T UNIX PCs (PC7300) in our lab. They have been >rarely used. Recently, the chairperson wants them to run DOS and DOS >applications such as MATLAB. Is anyone familier with the way to make it >work ? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. (First of all, comp.unix.bsd is the wrong group for this question; it really belongs in comp.sys.3b1, to which I'm redirecting followups.) The 7300 and 3b1 are based on the 68010, not the 8086 family. There is a coprocessor board that was available (called DOS-73); if you don't have this board installed, you simply can't run DOS at all. With the coprocessor board installed, the machine works more or less like a 512K IBM XT with a monochrome display adapter, but DOS software has to be reasonably well-behaved to work. (And you can simultaneously run UNIX software in other windows, a feature notably lacking on most XT clones....) -- PTD -- -- Palmer T. Davis ___ <ptd2@po.cwru.edu> \X/ cthread. cthread_fork(). Fork, thread, fork!