Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:00:01 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Andrey Chapurin <chapurin@mail.convey.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Handy <handy@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Subject: Re: Free BSD for i286 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971212094736.12693A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712121152.OAA24601@relay.convey.ru>
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Hi, On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Andrey Chapurin wrote: > Which version of FreeBSD can be run on : > 286-12MHz, 1MbRAM, 40Mb HDD, MonoEGA Hehe - this is my home machine! Well, I have 16 color EGA! Anyway, no version of FreeBSD will run on a 286. I got a bug to get DOS off the home machine and found Minix. I never really could get it to work right (I always had to boot from a floppy and once Minix was installed I never could get the DOS partition to boot again). Minix was ... entertaining. There was a great program that comes with it called animals. It was essentially a game where the computer tries to guess an animal you are thinking about and if it doesn't get it, you give it some characteristic to store in a database. Here's roughly how it works: Minix> Is it a penguin? Me> no Minix> Give me a characteristic Me>(thinking this is getting stupid already) exit Minix> Is it an exit? Me> quit Minix> Is it a quit? Me> ^C Minix> Is it a ^C? Me> aaarrrrrrgh Eventually I think I rebooted - I never did figure out how to get out of animals. It was nice when you'd play later it would again say "Is it an exit?" :-) Apparently there is some pseudo-X driver out there for Minix and, get this, a children's interface but after finding both of these once I never found them again. I'm back to DOS at home. At least kermit works! :-) Brett (who's answering ON his 286 from home!) ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ If only I could do a benchmark w/ the rc5 client on my 286!
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