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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!news.thenet.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Uses for an XT ???? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 18 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E7nwwo.Bzu@nonexistent.com> References: <332F54B8.167EB0E7@silas.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Trace: 859399511/12844 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:05:12 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38158 Chooka (dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote: : Mikhail Teterin wrote: : > : > Honorable Chooka : > wrote on 20 Mar (in article <332FAD12.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>): : > : > =Or can I ??? Upgrade the monitor and card and I could use the FreeBSD : > =box as an Xserver.... anyone know how to do this ? : > : > Correction: Your XTs will be the Xservers... : : Ah....I must be confused :) : An XT is based on the 8086 and so cannot run FreeBSD and therfore : XFree86. Hence it would be impossible to set the XT up as an X server. : Correct ? The Original IBM PC and the XT are based on the 8088,a weak sister to the 8086 that only has an 8-bit data line.The 8086 is a full 16-bit machine.