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Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself,installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ?

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Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> wrote in article
<mnhd7i$alt$1@dont-email.me>...
> On 18.06.2015 at 05:23 Jason Stevens wrote:
> > In article <53c4c87f$0$6654$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>,
> > z80eu@arcor.de says...
> >> And btw. is this newsgroup dead ?
> >
> > I did a blog post about it ages ago.  I started a DOOM port, but kind
of
> > lost interest as doing the graphics was going to be a MAJOR PITA, and I
> > didn't see the DOOM on Xenix thing being all that big of a deal.
> >
> > I guess the same goes for Quake or QuakeWorld.
> >
> > With MESS you can emulate a 386 or 486 along with one of the network
> > cards that Xenix actually supports, the 3c503 adapter.
> >
> > http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2013/12/09/virtual-xenix-
> > the-internet/
> >
> > Oddly enough I had issues keeping a real Pentium based machine online
for
> > more than a couple of days, just like the emulated system.
> >
> 
> Yeah, I am a visitor of the blog since years.
> Instead of using MESS64, I was just using a DOS based sector-by-sector 
> backup tool and VMPlayer. And yes, even network is still running, too.
> 
> See http://www.z80.eu/blog/index.php?entry=entry150604-180000
> 
> Regards
>   Peter
> 
> 

Wow that's pretty cool!

I forgot, but a few years ago I helped some city government move their
xenix to virtual so one person could log into it, and print some reports
and crap.

I'm pretty sure it's still alivle in weird places.

Probably on MFM disks too.

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Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2014-07-15 08:21 +0200
  Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? John McCue <jmccue@jmcnet1.bstma.east.verizon.net> - 2014-07-15 21:49 +0000
    Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2014-07-16 23:37 +0200
      Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? John McCue <jmccue@jmclin0.bstnma.east.verizon.net> - 2014-07-17 00:32 +0000
  Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> - 2015-06-18 11:23 +0800
    Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself, installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? Peter Dassow <z80eu@arcor.de> - 2015-07-07 22:37 +0200
      Re: Anyone interested in some infos about installing Xenix itself,installing development system, VP/IX and TCP/IP ? "Jason Stevens" <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> - 2015-08-29 06:05 +0000

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