Re: Help with antique Xenix/Informix on Altos Z-80

In <1ej49dINNb9c@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> jparker@hpbs2776.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker) writes: >> >> > 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).