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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 12 Dec 1995 06:21:37 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: pmh@pilhuhn.de's message of 11 Dec 1995 01:14:08 +0100
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In article <4aft4g$qrl@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen) writes:

   tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes:

   >Chris <gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu> wrote:
   >>The best that I know of that you can do with a 286 is minix.  Or else get linux

   >Genuine AT&T System V Release 3 was ported to the 286 by Interactive, and a
   >few escaped out to beta sites before AT&T came to their senses and killed
   >the project.  I wouldn't be surprised if one or two are lurking around the
   >back of some surplus store somewhere.

   And then there was Xenix 286, too.

Yes, but these are just teasers.  Give you a little so you want the
real thing even worse.  Coherent ran on a 286, also.  You could run a
stripped-down version of vi, and a really simple compiler.

However, I suspect he wanted something you could actually do something
useful on.

Forget it on a 286.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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