Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:51:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Cc: sebi@sorostm.ro, questions@FreeBSD.org, norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro Subject: Re: Unix for 286 Message-ID: <199604250221.LAA21830@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604242148.OAA03126@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at Apr 24, 96 02:48:55 pm
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Jim Dennis stands accused of saying: > > Xenix, Coherent, Minix. > > So far as I know none of these support TCP/IP. Mark Williams > corporation (publishers of Coherent) is defunct (last I heard). > I don't know if Xenix is still available (but it was always pretty > bad) so that leaves Minix. Coherent and Minix both have ethernet and SLIP TCP/IP support. Minix' ethernet support in the non-286 versions is very limited. (One card, nonstandard libraries). > As far as I know Minix (by Andrew Tannenbaum (sp?)) is available > as a commercial product from Prentice-Hall -- but is basically > only sold with one of Tanenbaum's books on OS design. I've read ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/ and mirrors. Minix 1.7.x is freely redistributable. > of versions of Minix that run on XT's and versions that are > "enhanced" to run on the 286. There used to be a newsgroup Minix groks and will use XT, AT and 386AT hardware. The 386 version is a supported platform for XFree86. > (alt.os.minix?) -- you might want to grab the FAQ from comp.os.minix. > Jim Dennis, -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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