I'm running it on a Pentium 233 at work. You need the intel boot
floppy, the first driver disk, the second driver disk and the additional
driver disk all of which can be downloaded at Apple, a supported video
and network card and a supported SCSI card even if you are installing
on an IDE hard drive. NS3.3 won't install using a ATAPI CD-ROM, it must
be installed using a SCSI drive. There is a beta IDE driver that is
supposed to support installs with IDE CD-ROM,s but I've never got it to
work. Also NS3.3 won't recognize partitions over 2.2gb without risk of
filesystem corruption. NeXTstep 3.3 works with Matrox Millenium PCI
video cards, NE2000 10BT NIC's and Adaptec SCSI cards (some models).
I put my intel box together out of cast off junk that was cluttering up
the workbench area.
NeXT never produced any hardware that wasn't Motorola based, however the
Canon line of object.stations were intel based. The 31 and 41 were
486DX4-100's and the 51 and 61 were Pentiums.
James
Owen Robertson wrote:
>on 10/3/02 12:30 AM, Lawrence Walker at lgwalker_at_mts.net wrote:
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>>Actually there are Intel "white" Next's. Doubtfull they would be Pentium
>>based tho.
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>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.
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