From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 13:10:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05334 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:10:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05328 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA15721; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:07:07 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602202107.OAA15721@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? To: Jaykork@aol.com Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:07:07 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <960220105007_427053969@emout09.mail.aol.com> from "Jaykork@aol.com" at Feb 20, 96 10:50:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Hi there, I have a DEC 286 VaxMate computer, is there any way that I can run > FreeBSD unix on it? If not, can you suggest a flavor of UNIX that will run on > the 286? Microport (uPort) SVR2.x -- the last release that didn't require real memory management. Altos 586/786 Xenix (probably won't run on standard hardware) Microsoft Xenix 286 (not nearly as good as SCO) SCO Xenix 286 (requires activation keys galore) Coherent (if you can find it -- lower quality than the others). Minix (you might find an older copy of the Tannenbaum book with a disk) You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated warehouse. SCO is the only one that supports networking of any kind; it's not enough to do standard X, since the select() function is missing from most old Xenix drivers... besides, X is too large for a 286. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.