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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:563 comp.os.386bsd.misc:745 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!tvilla From: tvilla@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Tim Villa) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,alt.os.bsdi Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Date: 24 Aug 1993 03:15:17 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 13 Message-ID: <25c145$sit@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <1993Aug19.120938.5462@janix.pcs.dec.com> <255bpo$6ht@eddie.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lethe.uwa.edu.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 #1 shawn@fenchurch.mit.edu (Shawn F. Mckay) writes: >Thats just not true, Linux makes no effort to run on a 286. If I have >to have a 386 to run, I'll have little trouble choosing. And IDE >drives are CHEAP and plentiful. > - Shawn And it should make no attempt to run on a 286. Apart from the fact that the things are brain dead, they are 16 bit processors which simply cannot support a 32 bit operating system. Tim