From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 29 11:30:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19896 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dreamland.d.kamp.net (Port-1-dus.kamp.de [195.4.52.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19881 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by dreamland.d.kamp.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id UAA00836; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199708291357.GAA06603@meerkat.mole.org> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:14:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Joachim Jaeckel To: "M.R.Murphy" Subject: Re: Older Intel x86 Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, shovey@buffnet.net, griffin@oswego.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 29-Aug-97 M.R.Murphy 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. >> > >Xenix and Microport SV/AT run on '286. Also PC/IX IIRC. Microport SV/AT >is a reasonable implementation of SVR2. You might also consider Minix. I've heard that they tried to port LINUX ('cuse me :-) to a 8086. For further information about "Linux/ELKS for 8086" (I think that's the name of it) try to contact http://www.linux.org Ciao, Joachim. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joachim Jaeckel Date: 29-Aug-97 Time: 20:14:23 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------