From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 21:56:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA09519 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101153.iafrica.com [196.7.101.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA09509 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id HAA04081; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:49:03 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199602210549.HAA04081@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? To: mitayai@dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:49:02 +0200 (SAT) Cc: Jaykork@aol.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe" at Feb 20, 96 11:29:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > > 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? There is supposed to be some form of Ethernet support, but I'm not sure what it amounts to. -- Robert Nordier