From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 06:50:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA05998 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 06:50:43 -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 GAA05989 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 06:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id HAA19881; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:50:21 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: ptroot@uswest.com ("Paul T. Root") Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 07:26:15 -0600 Organization: !nterprise Networking Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <312B1D77.2A41@uswest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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? > > Microport (uPort) SVR2.x -- the last release that didn't require real > memory management. > > Altos 586/786 Xenix (probably won't run on standard hardware) > > Microsoft Xenix 286 (not nearly as good as SCO) > > SCO Xenix 286 (requires activation keys galore) > > Coherent (if you can find it -- lower quality than the others). > > 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 You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated 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. I have (or had) Minix 1.5 disks, that I'm not going to use. I won't let go of the book however. It was kinda fun to play with, but not that much you can do. It's not going to compile the current apps. But it is pretty good for learning kernel internals. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com "God willing... we shall return." -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972