Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:52:56 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: 9ustavo 9onzalez 9iron <gstgnzgr@libertad.univalle.edu.co>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i286 Message-ID: <200112110552.AAA08679@valiant.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:02:26 MST." <15381.12530.404008.733531@caddis.yogotech.com>
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> > Exist some kind of FreeBSD's version for intel 286 processor? > > Never in a million years. There exists no 'real' unix for the 286, > since the 286 hardware is incapable of protecting processes well enough > to be safe. Not that anyone cares any more but... i286 provides good enough protection -- you can have each prcoess in its own protected address space without any external h/w support (like we had to do for Moto 68000 based machines). What it didn't provide was support for paging. A company called Microport released a "real" unix for 286 in, I think, 1985. Another company called Bell Technologies used to sell PC/ATs bundled with Microport's Unix and their own drivers for various I/O devices until Intel bought them out. Microport is still around but don't know if they sell Unix on PC/ATs anymore! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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