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From: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux,comp.os.minix,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.misc
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Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286
References: <1993Apr21.165928.26970@swan.pyr>
Message-ID: <930422842@erato.iowa-city.ia.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 93 07:46:45 CDT
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From article <1993Apr21.165928.26970@swan.pyr>, by iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox):
> In article <1993Apr20.153834.8186@vedge.com> 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?
>>
>
> The older versions of minix (certainly 1.3) would run bearably on a 640K
> PC with a pair of 1.2Mb floppy disks. Not pleasant but usable by the
> masochist.
>
Yeah, but if his machine's *that* old, it won't support 1.2 Meg disks.
-John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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