From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 12:23:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA11535 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco2.uswest.com [206.196.133.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA11530 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id NAA29420; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:22:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma029414; Wed Apr 24 13:21:22 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id NAA02539; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:21:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA19879; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:21:18 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA26449; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:21:10 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199604241921.OAA26449@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: Unix for 286 To: sebi@sorostm.ro (Sebastian DEAC) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:21:09 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <317E49F4.2CED@sorostm.ro> from "Sebastian DEAC" at Apr 24, 96 06:34:12 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Sebastian DEAC said: > > Hello! > My name is Norbert Hanigovszki, I am a student at the Politechnical > University of Timisoara, Romania. > I have an AT-286 computer running DOS and I'd like tu run a UNIX OS on > it. I intended to install FreeBSD but it doesn't work with my CPU. Do > you know if somwhere exists a UNIX wich runs on a 286 machine? > > Thank You, > > Norbi > > Please send reply to: > norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro This was discussed about a month ago. Your best bet is to get Minix. I'm not sure of the location for it. You should be able to run archie or a web searcher to find it. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com MGB - British Racing Green on Top Castrol and Gerling green on the bottom - Peter Egan