From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 16:20:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ilstu.edu (mail.ilstu.edu [138.87.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8039114E2C for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:20:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fordp@guide.chi.il.us) Received: from prefect (south212018.resnet.ilstu.edu [138.87.212.18]) by mail.ilstu.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id SAA11145; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:19:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990901181652.01171074@pop.interaccess.com> X-Sender: fordp@pop.interaccess.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 18:16:52 -0500 To: Draco Ravenloft From: Ford Prefect Subject: Re: OLD OLD computer Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <37CD7B25.882B6255@prodigy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux would all be no goes. (There is/was a group doing a port of linux to 8088 but I doubt its useful yet) You might want to find a copy of Minix. That should run on an 8088. It was designed to teach people OS coding so its not the latest and greatest, but is IS unix like, and I have run (1.0 atleast) on an 8088. their main pages seems to be here: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html -Steve At 02:14 PM 9/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >I have an old computer I'd like to free some resources on. > >I currently run Linux on my newer system and rather like it and have >found that Unix is MUCH easier on the system resources than DOS. > >But I'm having a problem finding anything that will run on this thing's >old 8088 processor. Does FreeBSD have a version that would run on this? > >If not... what *nix can I get if any? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > *=====================================================* \ Ford Prefect Ahead of my time. \ \ fordp@guide.chi.il.us but only by a week. \ \ homepage.interaccess.com/~fordp \ \ \ \ ((In esperanto where available)) \ *=====================================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message