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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) 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 05:31:17 GMT Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4aj435$vbh@felix.junction.net> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <MICHAELV.95Dec6212804@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <4a80q5$2e@catapult.gatech.edu> <4afini$1a8@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30065 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10279 comp.unix.advocacy:12086 comp.unix.misc:20037 In article <4afini$1a8@news1.halcyon.com>, Tim Smith <tzs@coho.halcyon.com> wrote: >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. I have a full Xenix 286 development system sitting here on the shelf next to me. The last customer that was still using a 286 Xenix system in production, (3 terminals on a 2 meg 286 with 40 meg hard drive) just upgraded to SCO UNIX last year. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com