Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:42:09 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: phuff@cs.oberlin.edu (Paul Huff) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8088's :) Message-ID: <199603032042.WAA00297@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199603031846.NAA12596@cs.oberlin.edu> from "Paul Huff" at Mar 3, 96 01:46:50 pm
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On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, Paul Huff wrote: > I'm not sure this is the right place to be asking about this, so if it isn't > please forgive me for intruding. I have heard rumors about a version of > FreeBSD that will run on an 8088(don't laugh it's my only computer :) XT. > Is this true, and if so where could I obtain it? > Thank you very much and once again, I'm sorry to intrude if I have done so. > -Paul Sadly FreeBSD requires at least an 80386. However, if you haven't already done so, you might try Minix 1.7.1 which apparently does run on an XT. Source and binaries are available by anonymous ftp. If you have WWW access, check out http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/getting_minix.html -- Robert Nordier
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