Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:58:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Cc: griffin@oswego.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Older Intel x86 Message-ID: <199708291358.IAA07571@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970829084022.10525W-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> from Steve Hovey at "Aug 29, 97 08:40:44 am"
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In a previous message, Steve Hovey said:
> 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.
There is Minix. And I used to have MicroPort SysV 3.x for my 286. It
ran with 2 meg of memory and in 20 meg of disk. The compiler stunk,
however, big problems with segment sizes.
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