Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 07:31:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, dbaker@concorde-mail.neosoft.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? Message-ID: <199506021231.HAA01634@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91j.950601234724.23239A-100000@saul3.u.washington.edu> from "John Utz" at Jun 1, 95 11:59:04 pm
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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.
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