What are the characteristics of Lisa Xenix?
Lisa Xenix is a Microsoft variant of SCO unix. The last version for the Lisa is 3.0. It supports multiple users via terminals connected to the built-in serial ports, as well as the Tecmar 4 port serial card. Two add on packages require installation on a Widget hard drive, or a second ProFile (attached to dual a parallel port card). One is a development environment which includes a C compiler (K&R only, not ANSI) and a text based word processing suite called Lyrix. Xenix does not support the Lisa’s mouse, nor graphics; only text mode operations. Hard Disk Size vs I/O board ROM version Some portion of Xenix assumes that the size of the parallel port hard disk connected to the built-in port always corresponds to the type of Lisa. In particular: • if the I/O board ROM is version A8, the hard disk connected to the built-in port must be 5 MB • if the I/O board ROM is version 88, the hard disk connected to the built-in port must be 10 MB Since 5 MB is too small to install everything in the Xe
