Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:22:17 +0200 (SAT) From: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Message-ID: <199602202322.BAA03140@eac.iafrica.com>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert 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? [.....] > Minix (you might find an older copy of the Tannenbaum book with a disk) > > You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated > warehouse. SCO is the only one that supports networking of any > kind; it's not enough to do standard X, since the select() function > is missing from most old Xenix drivers... besides, X is too large for > a 286. Apparently a current version of Minix (1.7.1) is available in a distribution that supports the 286 ... and even the 8086. Check out http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7East/getting_minix.html Binaries and source are available for downloading from the same address. -- Robert Nordier
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