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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:02:33 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        cmcmurra@flemingc.on.ca (Chris Mcmurray)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and 286
Message-ID:  <199608260902.AA239380154@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <45ADC055816@hal9000.flemingc.on.ca> from "Chris Mcmurray" at Aug 24, 96 06:08:10 pm

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E-mail message from Chris Mcmurray contained:
> I know it sounds silly, but i have an old 286 I was given and I want to 
> run un*x on it. WHERE can I find a downloadable copy that I can run on 
> it? I know there must still be something around somewhere!

There are probably some Xenix-en around, some other ancient stuff as well,
and there is minix for xt and 286.

I've tried minix once (just for kicks.)  It had the taste of a very early
unix for pdp-11 with split data/instruction 64K address spaces (which is
the way they implemented it in Minix, if I understand correctly.)

I serioulsy doubt if either way is worth the effort.

/Marino
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 




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