From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 11:44:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08291 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08286 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Early-Bird-1.Think.COM by mail.think.com; Wed, 24 Apr 96 14:44:30 -0400 Received: from compound.Think.COM ([206.10.99.158]) by Early-Bird.Think.COM; Wed, 24 Apr 96 14:44:20 EDT Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.Think.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02067; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:43:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:43:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199604241943.OAA02067@compound.Think.COM> From: Tony Kimball To: norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unix on 286 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: root Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:59:27 +0300 Hello! My name is Norbert Hanigovszki, I am student at the Politechnic Highschool of Timisoara, Romania, I have a 286-based PC and I'd like to run UNIX on it. I intended to install FeeBSD on it but unhappily it does not support this type of processor. Do you know where can I find a UNIX OS that runs on my computer? Thank You. Please mail me to: norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro Minix, by Tannenbaum, or Mark Williams' Coherent are your best bet for a Unix approximation on a 286. comp.os.minix and comp.os.coherent are the newsfroups of interest. Their FAQs should give you a leg up. Try ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/{minix,coherent} if you are not satisfied with the currently spooled postings available to you. //alk