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From: Des Small
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any type of Intel UNIX to run on a 286?
Date: 20 Nov 1996 14:00:33 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, University of Southampton
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Message-ID: <DMS.96Nov20140033@mhorr>
References: <01bbd4ce$f0970080$6ae419ce@thekork>
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In-reply-to: tedm@agora.rdrop.com's message of 18 Nov 1996 04:49:58 GMT
>>>>> "tedm" == tedm <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> writes:
tedm> In <01bbd4ce$f0970080$6ae419ce@thekork>, "Thekork"
tedm> <thekork@xtdl.com> writes:
>> Is there any type of UNIX that would run on a x286? I have one
>> sitting up in the atic just gathering dust!
[Xenix stuff snipped]
tedm> You might try experimenting with a program called Minix,
tedm> this was a unix-like operating system that could run on an
tedm> XT believe it or not. Prentice Hall had a couple books out
tedm> about it at one time and you could FTP it off sites on the
tedm> net.
Minix Version 2.0 is available from
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
and will run quite nicely on old, otherwise obsolete, hardware.
Note that the license permits only educational and research use; so
don't go setting up a rival to Altavista with it, or anything...
The book (Andrew S. Tanenbaum's `Operating Sytems: design and
implementation') is pretty well essential to the OS, unless you want
to spend your life reading the source. The second edition is
immanent.
HTH,
Des Small.
--
`space travel's in my blood,
there ain't nothin' i can do about it.'
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet.