Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:00:40 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Message-ID: <9602211200.AA08834@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960220174912.16278B-100000@professor.eng.umd.edu>; from "Chuck Robey" at Feb 20, 96 5:51 pm
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> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 Jaykork@aol.com 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? > You won't run FreeBSD on it, or any modern Unix, because the 286 has no > hardware memory manger in it. You can run Minix, which is a kinda > "simulation" of unix ... depending on your purposes, it might be enough. > You get Minix from your local bookstore, Tanenbaum wrote it as a teaching > tool. Since version 1.7.1, Minix is free for downloading at http://www.cs.vu.nl/ftp/minix/ If you have a 286 with funny disk controller or with less than 2 MB RAM, ask me about installation instructions--it is nontrivial. (For the record, I have it "running" on an Olivetty M-201 luggable with 20 MB proprietary Conner IDE prototype and 640 KB RAM. It actually works :) /Alby > > > > thanks alot! > > > > Jason "thekork" Korkin > > > > e-mail: thekork@xtdl.com > > WWW: http://www.xtdl.com/~thekork > > > >
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