From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 06:58:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA04556 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 06:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (proot@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA04546 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 06:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA07571; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:58:12 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199708291358.IAA07571@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Older Intel x86 To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve Hovey) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:58:11 -0500 (CDT) Cc: griffin@oswego.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Steve Hovey at "Aug 29, 97 08:40:44 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. --William Shakespeare