From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 14:53:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA12010 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:53:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11997 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from professor.eng.umd.edu (professor.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.207]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id RAA23567; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by professor.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) id RAA15157; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@professor.eng.umd.edu To: Jaykork@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? In-Reply-To: <960220105007_427053969@emout09.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------