Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:16:52 -0500 From: Ford Prefect <fordp@guide.chi.il.us> To: Draco Ravenloft <DRACO81@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OLD OLD computer Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990901181652.01171074@pop.interaccess.com> In-Reply-To: <37CD7B25.882B6255@prodigy.net>
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FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux would all be no goes. (There is/was a group doing a port of linux to 8088 but I doubt its useful yet) You might want to find a copy of Minix. That should run on an 8088. It was designed to teach people OS coding so its not the latest and greatest, but is IS unix like, and I have run (1.0 atleast) on an 8088. their main pages seems to be here: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html -Steve At 02:14 PM 9/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >I have an old computer I'd like to free some resources on. > >I currently run Linux on my newer system and rather like it and have >found that Unix is MUCH easier on the system resources than DOS. > >But I'm having a problem finding anything that will run on this thing's >old 8088 processor. Does FreeBSD have a version that would run on this? > >If not... what *nix can I get if any? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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