From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 12:35:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669B815A6C for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA25760; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:35:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:35:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Draco Ravenloft Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OLD OLD computer In-Reply-To: <37CD7B25.882B6255@prodigy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the 8088 lacks the necesary processor interrupt to do multitasking. the 80286 was the first to have SOMETHING, and coherent was the nix I knew of at the time that would run on it. the 80386 was the first cpu to really have the needed whatevers in the CPU On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Draco Ravenloft wrote: > I have an old computer I'd like to free some resources on. > > I currently run Linux on my newer system and rather like it and have > found that Unix is MUCH easier on the system resources than DOS. > > But I'm having a problem finding anything that will run on this thing's > old 8088 processor. Does FreeBSD have a version that would run on this? > > If not... what *nix can I get if any? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message