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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:8977 comp.os.linux:35253 comp.os.minix:21869 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1806 comp.os.misc:2147 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!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4at!siemens.co.at!pse5327 From: pse5327@siemens.co.at (Abolghassem Salahi) Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286 Message-ID: <1993Apr21.100704.23818@siemens.co.at> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 10:07:04 GMT References: <1993Apr15.224745.9378@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1993Apr20.153834.8186@vedge.com> Organization: SIEMENS Austria Corp., A-1100 Wien, Gudrunstr. 11 Lines: 20 hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom) writes: >sable@halcyon.com (Scott Philip Sable) writes: >: I am in desperate need of any and all help!!! I am currently trying to >: find a Unix OS for an Intel 286 machine. I have tried a number of >While we are on the topic of old machines, I have an old 640K 8088-based >PC clone -- no hard disk even, and one can't be added -- THis is OLD -- >Does anyone know a Unix that will run on it? Not sure if if works on a 286, but it works in an 8088: Venix 2.0. It is very old, had no TCP/IP support, no manual pages, but it had a compiler and /bin and /usr/bin were pretty full. I had a second terminal (an old BBC running kermit :-) attached fine , but configuring the devices for a modem proved too much, though looking at the device names I would say it is possible. If you want more information then ask. I did see an advert for Venix in Byte a couple of years ago. I *think* the firm was 'Venturcom.' Alexis