That's okay I installed Minix on that but and it's running fine =p - Julien Peter Garay wrote: > There is "linux" for 8086 processor - I came across it an other day but do > not find the URL. It is semi-working, but with no network it is NOT what > you want. 640K will not take too far anyway (if works at all). > > Use the box to try if you can swap the motherboard (and lean a bit about > that), you can still (but not for long) get a motherboard that uses > the same power connector and the same cards as a 286. You can get > a 2nd hand 486 motherboard for even less. 8 Mbyte will do for > text, 16 for GUI slow. > > For small tasks in text mode I used 386SX-16 with 8Mbytes of RAM for > long-long time and it was usable. I have picked up motherboards > like that from the tip... > > (from my memories none of the alternatives recomened below would work in > 640K, but I might be wrong) > > From: > > The Answer Guy Issue 22 > > There is a project to produce an 8086 (and thus 286 compatible) subset > of the Linux kernel (ELK -- embeddable Linux kernel). However it is > probably not far enough along to be of interest to you. More generally > we can say that a kernel is not enough -- there would be considerable > work to porting a large enough set of tools to the subset > architecture. > > Moving back a little bit from Linux specifically we can recommend a > couple of Unix like OS' that did run on the 286. Of them, only Minix > is still widely available. It is not free (in the sense of GPL or the > BSD License) -- but is included with copies of Andrew Tanenbaum's > seminal text book on _Operating_Systems_Design_and_Implementation_. > You'll want the 2nd Edition. > > The two other implementations of Unix that have run on 286 systems are > Xenix (originally a Microsoft product then handed off to SCO -- Santa > Cruz Operations; which I think Microsoft still owns a good chunk of) > and long since discontinued, and Coherent (by the now defunct Mark > Williams Company). > > Kind regards, > > Peter Garay > > Any opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of JNA. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
