From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 12:37:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78E315A35 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22212; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 05:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:53:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein 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 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? the 8088 doesn't support any form of memory protection so unix ports are unlikely, however there is one called "minix", do a web search. enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message