Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-11 Thread Rafa Castillo
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Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-10 Thread David Teague
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any > for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful > on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap > it could do some stuff in linux im

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
aphro wrote: > i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any > for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful > on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap > it could do some stuff in linux im sure(never tried) Su

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread aphro
i believe there is variatns for the 286, but cant imagine there being any for the 8088 and 8086 there just isn't enough memory to do anything useful on those machines. i remember my 286 had 4MB of ram, combined with swap it could do some stuff in linux im sure(never tried) minix was probably 386

Re: UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:25PM +, Fish Smith wrote: > I know that the intel version of Linux is written for > 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an > 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? I'd rather suggest to use such machines as terminals (running NCSA-telnet

UNIX variant for old PC

2000-01-09 Thread Fish Smith
I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai