[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Scott Dorsey]

 <lists at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
>I never saw an XT/370 so I don't know what they ran. Looking quickly over
>the net it appears they didn't emulate the full instruction set. Do you
>happen to know what they were actually capable of and used for? It seems
>they could not boot or run any mainframe OS.

They did not emulate the full set but used software emulation for some
instructions, much like the uVax II.

I was told that it was possible to run MVS on the things, and we had one
where I worked but nobody ever used it for anything but running MS-DOS.
--scott

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