From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 13:17:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05982 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05967 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA11966; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:19:52 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:19:52 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602202119.OAA11966@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jaykork@aol.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? In-Reply-To: <199602202107.OAA15721@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <960220105007_427053969@emout09.mail.aol.com> <199602202107.OAA15721@phaeton.artisoft.com> 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 forgot Microport's PC/IX product, marketed only by IBM. (Yes, I *do* have a copy of it but I'm not parting with it. :) It's a straight port of Sys III for the XT, but it ran for months on my 286-10 with 1MB of memory. :) Nate