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Xref: sserve comp.os.coherent:8982 comp.os.linux:35262 comp.os.minix:21873 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1808 comp.os.misc:2149 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!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!think.com!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!caen!uunet!email!hp From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286 Message-ID: <1993Apr21.113449.8552@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: gipsy.vmars.tuwien.ac.at Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA References: <1993Apr15.224745.9378@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1993Apr20.153834.8186@vedge.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 11:34:49 GMT Lines: 18 hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom) writes: >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? Minix 1.1 :-) Even the later versions of Minix should run on it, but you may have to remove the wini task (I think it causes trouble if it cannot find the hard disk, even if you don't access /dev/hd*). hp -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technical University Vienna | as evolution | | | | | Computer Science/Real-Time Systems | in action! | | __/ | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | Tony Rand |