Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960220174912.16278B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>
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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 > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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