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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Jaykork@aol.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and a 286?
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960220174912.16278B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960220105007_427053969@emout09.mail.aol.com>

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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 Jaykork@aol.com wrote:

> 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?

You won't run FreeBSD on it, or any modern Unix, because the 286 has no 
hardware memory manger in it.  You can run Minix, which is a kinda 
"simulation" of unix ... depending on your purposes, it might be enough.  
You get Minix from your local bookstore, Tanenbaum wrote it as a teaching 
tool.

> 
>                               thanks alot! 
> 
>                                    Jason "thekork" Korkin
> 
> e-mail: thekork@xtdl.com
> WWW: http://www.xtdl.com/~thekork
> 
> 

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