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From: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen Hocking)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 286
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 03:32:53 GMT
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michael@unix0 (Michael Quigley) writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
>[Random Archaic Babbling Snipped]
>: So I'm afraid you're pretty much out of luck unless you can find an old
>: FreeBSD 0.4 distribution someplace. A company was selling a paper tape
>: distribution out of Antioch for awhile, but I don't know if they're still
>: in business. When your Pentium comes, you can run Linux on it and all
>: these problems will be behind you, eh? :-)
Don't laugh, but for a while in 1989 I was involved in a project
to port BSD to the 286. It was being encouraged by one of the founders of
Microport (Chuck Hickey?) and there was good progress being made. One booted
dos and than ran a little program that brought up BSD. It was all very
restrictive owing to the need to have an AT&T source license at the time. I
was doing night work at the Dept. of Physiology, Sydney University at the
time (hello John Mackin) and after various family disasters, had to move my
wife & I to Brisbane, where we currently reside. Obviously it was overtaken
by events, but the 286 was an industrial strength mongrel for protected mode
programming.
Stephen
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