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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!bronze.coil.com!bronze.coil.com!not-for-mail From: hware@bronze.coil.com (Henry Ware) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: O/S for 286s Date: 5 Aug 1994 19:05:56 -0400 Organization: Central Ohio Internet Link Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31ugkk$54b@bronze.coil.com> References: <1994Aug2.170647.1@ualr.edu> <michaelv.775935719@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <31rn8r$si@s069.infonet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coil.com In article <31rn8r$si@s069.infonet.net>, Dave Burgess <burgess@s069.infonet.net> wrote: >>In <1994Aug2.170647.1@ualr.edu> jdgiddings@ualr.edu (JOHN D. GIDDINGS) writes: >> >>>Just Curious..any BSD o/s 's for 286pcs??? > >Coherent and Minix are available in '286 flavors, but neither are BSD >Unices. > >'Are' may be a poor choice of words, though. I haven't heard much >about either one in a long time. I think there is a comp.os.unix286 >newsgroup. They may be able to help you with something. Coherent is still kicking and still $100. Its SysV2 based, I think. Its documentation is considered very good. See comp.os.coherent. The 286 is really showing its age tho: it can't do virtual memory paging, for example. IMHO, $100 would be better spent buying a new motherboard- that could buy a 386DX40 or a Cyrix486slc40. Then you could run a free and better Unix on a faster machine. Cheers, Henry -- That does it! I'm putting me back in my kill file!