Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:59:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: Daniel Baker <dbaker@Concorde-Mail.NeoSoft.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950601234724.23239A-100000@saul3.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <9506020437.AA26144@cs.weber.edu>
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Ahhh, terry, i was hoping u would way in on this one... :-) On Thu, 1 Jun 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I've got an old 286 box with an 80 meg hard drive.. Is there any change > > that I can get FreeBSD running on it? > > > > I think I can put memory in there, it's only got 640k of memory now.. :-) > > heh, I'll add another 8 megs... Hokay, we have established that this guy would be better of with a 386 and 4 megs as opposed to a 286 and 8 megs,, right? > > The MACH VM system requires a PMMU; there are also assumptions in the > swap, shared library, mmap, and linker that support this supposition. > This dovetails neatly with a question i have about this. It is my understanding that one of the reasons we have i*86BSD variants is that in addition to the ability to become 4 little seperate 8086's ( which we dont use, right? ), the 386 was the first cheap cpu to support a hardware page table, does our kernel make use of this? > For the same reason, Motorolla processers prior to the 68030 or the > 68020 with companion PMMU chip can't run NetBSD. exaclty which mac is this? They seem to be some real cheep used ones around here, and i would love a 2nd unix box > > Similarly, SVR2.3 is the last System V system that will run with the > same hardware limitations. > didn't linus' first effort get created on a 286? > I've considered back-porting a simpler VM system, but the work would > not be worth the effort (I don't even own anything less than a 486 > except real old hardware, and I already have SVR2.3 for my Amiga > 1000 with 68010) 68010? 68010? you are kidding! I had a class where we built stuff with 68010's is there anything still available that runs on these mega cheap amigas? wanna part with the whole thing? Is it usable? > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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