Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:50:04 EST From: "Christian" <PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> To: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, dbaker@concorde-mail.neosoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? Message-ID: <72C513713F2@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu>
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> From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? > To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> > Date sent: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:50:41 +0100 (BST) > Copies to: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, dbaker@concorde-mail.neosoft.com, > hackers@freebsd.org > > > > : Nope, sorry! Your only hope is Xenix or the local rifle club (I > > : recommend the latter on the grounds that you'll have a lot more fun > > : than you will with the former). > > > > There are certain second hand stores that will give you some money for > > a 286 MB. Not much, mind you, but some.... > > > > Warner > > I havent been following this thread, but wasnt there a version of SVR2 > that used to run on 286's? Microport i think... > > -- > ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- > Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland > PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk > | > I just read on USENET in the comp.os.minix group that Mr. Tannenbaum is making Minix available free for non-comercial use. I believe it does run on 286s. It can be obtained from: ftp.cs.vu.nl in the /pub/minix directory.
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