From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 23:15:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA12941 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA12932 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id AAA15886; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:15:15 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 15:29:18 +1030 (CST) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <199602210459.PAA10939@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dave Walton stands accused of saying: > > 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) > > Hmmm... I may just have a set of Minix disks laying around here > somewhere. If someone can tell me how to make disk images from them, I'd > be glad to mail the images to anyone who really needs a 286 unix. The current version of Minix is freely available from ftp.cs.vu.nl. (both 'xt' and 386 versions) > David Walton Programmer -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[