What's wrong with this picture?

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Oct 3 01:23:01 2002

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:

> I have a NeXTstep 3.x CD that says it contains the black and white (NeXT
> and Intel) versions of the OS. So by 'Intel' does it mean PCs, or
> specialized Intel based hardware? I always thought it meant that it
> would run on 486 and higher PCs, but I haven't been able to get it to
> boot on any, which leads me to believe that it isn't for generic Intel
> hardware. Or maybe I need a boot floppy which I don't have.

It works on some subset of "generic" intel hardware. Basically you need a
VGA card, a supported disk controller, an Intel 80486 CPU, 16 MB RAM. The
CD is not bootable on intel; the two boot floppies are required.

Canon sold the Object.station 41, which is essentially a generic i486
system, integrated specifically to run NEXTSTEP.

ok
r.
Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 01:23:01 BST