Tony,
I should have said, ** I ** wouldn't have reasonably expected unix to run
on an 8088 at the time (System V booted with 512K on a 286 but "vi temp"
hung so I had to expand memory). At the time I was unaware of any versions
besides Berkeley and AT&T. Now of course even IBM can boot linux on a
wrist-watch (but the power supply is ungainly). At the time 8-bit word
seemed inadequate; I could not find a way to buy quantity one 3B2 from Ma,
so motorolla (e.g. Fortune 32:16 nice box in '83 made me want a unix
workstation for home) and intel 286 seemed like only options I could find.
But I didn't know about usenet back then.
When was Minix ported to 8088? Some people kept PDP11s running for a pretty
long time :-)
Peter
On 4/9/07, Tony Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter St. John wrote:
> Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call it
> a software issue of failing to work around the hardware issue. Obviously
> the hardware was not a show-stopper.
>
> But it was the 286 I did this on, not the earlier 8088, which I don't
> think could reasonably have been expected to run unix; but the original
> comment regarded the 80286.
Hello, Peter.
People have very short memories! Minix runs fine on an 8088:
http://www.neonbox.org/minix_laptop/index.html
I replaced a pdp11/34 running Unix version 7 with an 8086 running Minix!
Hmm... I wonder if anyone remembers Amoeba?
Tony.
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