From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 19:25:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03564 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03547 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:25:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA21830; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:51:30 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604250221.LAA21830@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Unix for 286 To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:51:30 +0930 (CST) Cc: sebi@sorostm.ro, questions@FreeBSD.org, norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro In-Reply-To: <199604242148.OAA03126@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at Apr 24, 96 02:48:55 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[