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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 01:17:10 -0300
From:      "Bernardo M. Brummer" <bbrummer@solar.com.br>
To:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: questions-digest V5 #1647
Message-ID:  <NDBBKFIIKFHOFKNOJOJJOEIACLAA.bbrummer@solar.com.br>

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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:46:12 -0700
From: "C T" <willtop27@hotmail.com>
Subject: I need some help...

To whom it may concern,

My name is Craig and I am in the process of forming a non-profit
organization that takes old computers (286's etc...), setting them up for
email, word processing, internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving
them to people who can't afford computers.

One of my obstacles is finding an OS package similar to MS-DOS, but doesn't
cost money.

Does FreeBSD distribute something simple that would operate on older
machines?

Thank you,
Craig

To do that in a 286 is possible (except for internet browsing).
I used Coherent from Mark William Co. (doesn't exits anymore) before 386BSD
came out, it uses UUCP for mailing and file interchange.

It runs nicely in 286 with 1MB (holds up to 4 serial terms) but I don't
think anyone would want to learn it for everyday use (microemacs, vi, mail,
etc.).

Older machines, with less than, say 4 or 8MB, could use a Freedos, with an
old word processor, a spreadsheet and a term emulator, and would connect as
dumb text terminals, into a FreeBSD server where pine and lynx (text apps)
could be used to access the internet.

Cheers,

Bernardo















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