From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Aug 29 05:41:17 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA01020
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA01014
          for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 05:41:14 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA16159; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:41:06 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Jim Griffin <griffin@oswego.edu>
cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Older Intel x86
In-Reply-To: <3406ABB1.1200@oswego.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970829084022.10525W-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jim Griffin wrote:

> Is there a version of FreeBSD that will run on an older Intel x86
> machine?  80286 or lower? With minimal amounts of memory.  Perhaps an
> early version of FreeBSD?  The only information that I can find pertains
> to versions 2+ which apparently require a 80386 or higher.

The only 'nix I know of that will run on a 286 is the old coherent.