From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 20:29:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA03914 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (dreamlabs.dreaming.org [198.96.119.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA03907 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mitayai@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00587; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:29:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: Robert Nordier cc: Jaykork@aol.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? In-Reply-To: <199602202322.BAA03140@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > 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 You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated 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. > Assuming i had a dozen xt's lying around, some ethernet cars, some arcnet cards... could i make them of any use in my network? -mit ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at DreamLabs Community Information Network Toronto/Peterborough/Oshawa, Ontario, Canada Web: http://www.dreaming.org/~mitayai IRC: Mitayai Email: mitayai@dreaming.org