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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286?
To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 07:31:10 -0500 (CDT)
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> > 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?

8088, actually. He used Minix to bootstrap it. I booted Minix on a PC with
no hard drive and two floppies once. It ran. I understand it could even
rebuild itself in that configuration... you can still buy Minix, from
Prentice Hall I think. Don't let the folks on the Minix group know you're
a BSD user. Jolitz crapped all over that group and got into a war with
Tannenbaum (the author of Minix) before he left.

I wouldn't recommend running NetBSD on anything smaller than an Amiga 3000.