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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:8941 comp.os.linux:34979 comp.os.minix:21843 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1747 comp.os.misc:2135 Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!easix!teralon!mountain.GUN.de!gnusys!kg From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr) Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286 Followup-To: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc References: <1qkvai$d3g@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: GNUSYS Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 20:55:23 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Message-ID: <1993Apr17.205523.333@gnusys.GUN.de> Lines: 30 Garrett D'Amore (garrett@garnet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : 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. You have forgotten SCO Xenix 286 and Minix 1.5. -- o o ---oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------------------------------------- | Klaus Guhr, Marktstr.33 | Phone : +49 +228 48 53 60 kg@gnusys.GUN.de | 5300 Bonn 3, Germany | FAX/Data: +49 +228 43 24 33 | | FAX: 08.00 - 20.00 h | Data:? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- uid 0 is expired. Shutdown in 1 minute!