From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 16:00:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA16785 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:00:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16779 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 16:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id RAA02880; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:00:24 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:51:36 -0500 (EST) Lines: 30 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------