From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 10 14: 2:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6936137B405 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA17046; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:02:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBAM2Q903833; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:02:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15381.12530.404008.733531@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:02:26 -0700 To: 9ustavo 9onzalez 9iron Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i286 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Exist some kind of FreeBSD's version for intel 286 processor? Never in a million years. There exists no 'real' unix for the 286, since the 286 hardware is incapable of protecting processes well enough to be safe. However, there exists a couple of products that may be good enough, which work on both the 8086/8088 and 80286 product lines. 1) Minix (Andy Tanenbaum's teaching OS) 2) Coherent unix (the company went out of business, but you might be able to find a copy somewhere). 3) Xenix (again, no longer produced, but someone might have a version they'd be willing to part with.) 4) PC/IX - Again, not produced, but you might find someone willing to sell you one. Of the above, you're best bet is to get Minix, which I believe is still distributed. See: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html Of note, Bruce Evans, one of the earliest and most consistent FreeBSD developers, had a huge hand in making minix a more useful OS in the late 80's and early 90's. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message