Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 07:46:43 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Andy Tanenbaum: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP Message-ID: <199511090646.HAA22079@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <847.815883051@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 8, 95 06:10:51 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > I think it should be passed on to announce with a prefix saying that > > 'this is what to ell people that ask about running FreeBSD on their 286.. > > it should also be in the FAQ.. > > Uh. That's really reaching, Julian.. :-) > > Minix != FreeBSD just as Xenix != FreeBSD and you hardly see us giving > pointers to Xenix. Well, there are two obvious reasons why not, both of which don't apply to Minix: 1. Xenix isn't free. In fact, it costs an arm, a leg, and a mind. 2. Current versions of Xenix don't run on 286s I don't think it would do any harm to give pointers to people who don't have the hardware to run FreeBSD. I don't think it would do much harm not to, for that matter. Greg
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