From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 02:13:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA28902 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 02:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eins.siemens.at (eins.siemens.at [193.81.246.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA28897 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 02:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by eins.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA27145 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:06:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uuxci-00021JC; Mon, 26 Aug 96 11:06 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA239380154; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:02:34 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199608260902.AA239380154@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 286 To: cmcmurra@flemingc.on.ca (Chris Mcmurray) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:02:33 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <45ADC055816@hal9000.flemingc.on.ca> from "Chris Mcmurray" at Aug 24, 96 06:08:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > >