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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!cronkite.cisco.com!vandys-lap.cisco.com!vandys From: vandys@cisco.com ( Andy Valencia ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Exists a BSD release running on 286 SCSI computers? Date: 24 Dec 95 04:21:01 GMT Organization: cisco Systems Lines: 25 Message-ID: <vandys.819778861@vandys-lap.cisco.com> References: <4bej13$70e@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es> <4bies4$5ch@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: vandys-lap.cisco.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: >I don't believe there was ever a version of BSD Unix running on a 286. Hah! BSD/AT lives. Ok, that's an exaggeration. It's pretty much dead, but it did exist. I suspect I had the only 286 to ever do true BSD job control. It was a port of BSD to the large model i286, long name filesystem and everything. One of my last hacks was to get a buffer cache bigger than 64k. It also had some strange System V source mixed in, the overall result was somewhere between "cool to do on a 286" and "devastatingly ugly". Totally proprietary, you needed a source license, it's pretty much a dead parrot now. I handed off the last of my patches years ago, I doubt they were ever even integrated. >If you must stick with the 286, I recommend SCO Xenix 286 above >any of the other options (Coherent, Minix, etc.). Microport wasn't quite as solid, but it was a more standard System V environment. You could get a lot of standard source code to port without too much effort. I always felt awash in all the compiler options on the SCO environment. "My opinions only" Andy Valencia