Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> Cc: Jaykork@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960220232845.25389I-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <199602202322.BAA03140@eac.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Hi there, I have a DEC 286 VaxMate computer, is there any way that I can run > > > FreeBSD unix on it? If not, can you suggest a flavor of UNIX that will run on > > > the 286? > > [.....] > > > Minix (you might find an older copy of the Tannenbaum book with a disk) > > > > You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated > > warehouse. SCO is the only one that supports networking of any > > kind; it's not enough to do standard X, since the select() function > > is missing from most old Xenix drivers... besides, X is too large for > > a 286. > > Apparently a current version of Minix (1.7.1) is available in a > distribution that supports the 286 ... and even the 8086. Check out > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/getting_minix.html > > Binaries and source are available for downloading from the same address. > Assuming i had a dozen xt's lying around, some ethernet cars, some arcnet cards... could i make them of any use in my network? -mit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at DreamLabs Community Information Network Toronto/Peterborough/Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Web: http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai IRC: Mitayai Email: mitayai@dreaming.org
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