Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:07:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: Jaykork@aol.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and a 286? Message-ID: <199602202107.OAA15721@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <960220105007_427053969@emout09.mail.aol.com> from "Jaykork@aol.com" at Feb 20, 96 10:50:08 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 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might find an older copy of the Tannenbaum book with a disk) You will need to buy them used and/or from an overstock/outdated warehouse.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. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602202107.OAA15721>