From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 15:22:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA03668 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03650 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA06014; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:21:08 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA02649; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:22:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 18:22:29 -0400 (EDT) To: "Paul T. Root" cc: Sebastian DEAC , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro Subject: Re: Unix for 286 In-Reply-To: <199604241921.OAA26449@astro.acs.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, Sebastian DEAC said: > > 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? > > > > Please send reply to: > > norbi@ltmpt.sorostm.ro This message would've been sent to sebi@sorostm.ro. You may want to check the configuration of your mailer (tossed your original message, so I can't check which mailer you might be using). It's probably possible to make it use the reply-to field. > 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. see below quote. > Loren J. Petrof stands accused of saying: > No. Get minix 1.7.0 (ftp.cs.vu.nl) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk