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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: BSD for 286 ?
Message-ID: <D8MJvH.AKw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 14:50:04 GMT
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In article <3p7hde$2vl@mercury.dur.ac.uk> Joe Heitz <Johannes.Heitz@durham.ac.uk> writes:
>Is there a version of BSD for 286 PCs? With TCP/IP?

No, and there never will be.  286s are machines from hell and should be
left to rot.

Minix runs on 286s, but it's not BSD, and I very much doubt that the
286 version has TCP/IP.

-- Richard
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