From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 10:52:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA28312 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 10:52:13 -0700 Received: from mars.csg.peachnet.edu ([168.26.193.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA28306 ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 10:52:12 -0700 Received: from mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (mercury.CSG.PeachNet.EDU [168.26.193.32]) by mars.csg.peachnet.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA26223; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:40:11 -0400 Received: from CCMAIN/SpoolDir by mercury.csg.peachnet.edu (Mercury 1.21); 7 Jun 95 13:50:25 EST Received: from SpoolDir by CCMAIN (Mercury 1.21); 7 Jun 95 13:50:14 EST From: "Christian" Organization: Columbus College, Columbus, GA To: Karl Strickland Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:50:04 EST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? CC: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, dbaker@concorde-mail.neosoft.com, hackers@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <72C513713F2@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > From: Karl Strickland > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286? > To: Warner Losh > Date sent: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 22:50:41 +0100 (BST) > Copies to: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, dbaker@concorde-mail.neosoft.com, > hackers@freebsd.org > > > > : Nope, sorry! Your only hope is Xenix or the local rifle club (I > > : recommend the latter on the grounds that you'll have a lot more fun > > : than you will with the former). > > > > There are certain second hand stores that will give you some money for > > a 286 MB. Not much, mind you, but some.... > > > > Warner > > I havent been following this thread, but wasnt there a version of SVR2 > that used to run on 286's? Microport i think... > > -- > ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- > Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland > PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk > | > I just read on USENET in the comp.os.minix group that Mr. Tannenbaum is making Minix available free for non-comercial use. I believe it does run on 286s. It can be obtained from: ftp.cs.vu.nl in the /pub/minix directory.