> As for 386-hardware, I already mentioned that Bruce Evans had a > legitimate minix-386 going, whether virtual memory was involved or > not, I have no recollection. The licencing, I recall, was that you > had to have paid for the source distribution and you were then > entitled to all subsequent upgrades and so on. I did not get the > impression that it was a show stopper at the time, I paid considerably > more for Plan 9 with a much more restrictive licence.
I seem to recall that 386BSD was available at about the same time. i don't know why it didn't catch on the way linux did.
