From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 18:03:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17672 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Arizona.EDU (Penny.Telcom.Arizona.EDU [128.196.128.217]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17667 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov by Arizona.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #2381) id <01I8NUOVKCY8CQF9NL@Arizona.EDU>; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:33:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost by sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05103; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:32:12 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:32:11 -0700 From: Doug Wellington Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 286 In-reply-to: "Your message of Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:08:10 MST." <45ADC055816@hal9000.flemingc.on.ca> To: Chris Mcmurray Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov Message-id: <9608250032.AA05103@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Previously: >I know it sounds silly, but i have an old 286 I was given and I want to >run un*x on it. WHERE can I find a downloadable copy that I can run on >it? I know there must still be something around somewhere! Chris, You might be able to use Minix or Xinu on your 286... Here's a couple pointers: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html http://willow.canberra.edu.au/~chrisc/xinu.html -Doug Doug Wellington doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov System and Network Administrator US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ Project Office According to proposed Federal guidelines, this message is a "non-record". Hmm, I wonder if _everything_ I say is a "non-record"...? FreeBSD and Apache - the best real tools for the virtual world! Check out www.freebsd.org and www.apache.org... Chuck - Lord of Darkness? Or Lord of Cuteness?