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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:8876 comp.os.linux:34507 comp.os.minix:21810 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1648 comp.os.misc:2118 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!garrett From: garrett@garnet.berkeley.edu (Garrett D'Amore) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286 Date: 16 Apr 1993 00:40:50 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1qkvai$d3g@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <1993Apr15.224745.9378@nwnexus.WA.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu Get yourself a copy of Coherent. It's sold by Mark Williams Company, and comes in two flavors, v4.0 and v3.2. You won't be able to use v3.2 -- becuase it requires a 386, but v4.0 should work. MWC charges $99 for either version, regardless of price. They do include nice documentation, and their o.s. is much more stable (if it doesn't include as many nice features -- like TCP/IP networking). A few notes -- you will be limited to programs that fit in 64K of ram. You won't be able to run X. There are probably other limitations as well. This is because the 286 is an old cpu which doesn't have as much support for protection and large-space addressing as the 386. Coherent 3.2 is the only 286 based version of Un*x I know of worth messing with. On a side note: if you're going to do anything real with Unix, get yourself a 386 or 486 and save yourself some headaches. :-) PS: There is a group devoted to Coherent on the internet... comp.os.coherent, I think. ==================================================================== Garrett D'Amore | garrett@haas.berkeley.edu Software Co-Ordinator | 68 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Haas Computing Services | Ph: 510-643-5923 Fax: 642-4769 ====================================================================