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From: rick@trystro.uucp (Richard Nickle)
Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286
Message-ID: <C5wHpD.I3o@trystro.uucp>
Organization: The Trystro System (617) 625-7155 v.32/v.42bis
References: <1993Apr15.224745.9378@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1993Apr20.153834.8186@vedge.com> <1993Apr21.100704.23818@siemens.co.at>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:48:47 GMT
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In article <1993Apr21.100704.23818@siemens.co.at> pse5327@siemens.co.at (Abolghassem Salahi) writes:
>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.'
Yeah.  Someone gave me manuals for this beast.  I don't have the software.
It looks quite a bit like Coherent 3.0 in what it comes with.  64k segments
for memory, and pretty much the V7 toolkits.  I think it actually had a few
things Coherent 3.0 didn't (but, this was circa 1984).

The address on the manuals:

VenturCom Inc.,
215 First Street,
Cambridge MA 02142
(617) 661-1230

I believe they are still around, making embedded real-time kernels.
But I'm not sure.

Minix runs on an 8088, doesn't it?

>Alexis


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