From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Subject: Re: Unix OS for 286 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 20:13:18 GMT
In article <1993Apr21.165928.26970@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In article <1993Apr20.153834.8186@vedge.com> hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom) writes:
>>
>>While we are on the topic of old machines, I have an old 640K 8088-based
>>PC clone -- no hard disk even, and one can't be added -- THis is OLD --
>>Does anyone know a Unix that will run on it?
>>
>
>The older versions of minix (certainly 1.3) would run bearably on a 640K
>PC with a pair of 1.2Mb floppy disks. Not pleasant but usable by the
>masochist.
>
Well, I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.3 on a dual 360K floppy machine. It wasn't
until 1.3 that I had the right wini.c to use my 30Meg RLL hard drive.
Mike