On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, arnie sherman wrote: > speaking of old pc's... > i have inherited an old 286 & have been thinking of setting it up w/ minix, > or some such thing. > anyone w/ experience setting this up, i.e. system requirements, is it worth > the trouble, etc? > thanks, > arnie sherman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends on what you want to do. The Linux ELKS project seems to be making improvements, and I hear they even have source availabe for download, but I don't think it can do much yet. I never did try minix but I've ran OpenDOS with their WebSpyder browser and it worked for what I needed; Caldera has all this for download off their site at <http://www.caldera.com/>. I also used to bring an old NEC Ultralite 8086-based laptop with me wherever I went for writing and term emulation purposes. It only ran DOS 3.3 (built into a chip), but with a text editor and a term program it was actually very useful on the road, and the machine was cheap enough so that if something happened to it it dodn't matter. I'm actually looking for one of these right now if I can find one for cheap -- it's one of the lightest laptops I've ever seen (some of those old 8086 laptops were pretty bulky). email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright (c) 1997 Michael Stutz; this information is <http://dsl.org/m/> free and may be reproduced under GNU GPL, and as long as this sentence remains; it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; for details see <http://dsl.org/copyleft/>.
